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AEP Ohio -- through our rebuilding efforts -- has restored power to more than a half million customers affected by the catastrophic  storm that moved through the state June 29 and the additional 20,000 who lost power in the July 1 evening storm.                                  

As of 9:30 a.m. today, approximately 516,000 of the customers left without power June 29 now have service.                                          

New overnight storms interrupted power to approximately 23,000 additional customers across our service territory. Power has been restored to all by approximately 8,700 of those customers.                                  

By 9 a.m. today, (July 3) AEP Ohio had restored power to         
approximately 55 percent of the 660,000 customers affected by the         
catastrophic storms that moved through the state June 29 and the          
additional 20,000 outaged by the July 1 evening storm.                    

Meteorologists continue to show the threat of possible thunderstorms      
through the end of the week. Temperatures are forecasted to remain in the 
mid-90s throughout this period.                                           

Approximately 297,000 customers were without power at 9:00 a.m. today.