AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC. SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 1 Riverside Plaza Columbus, OH 43215-2373 614-716-1000 AEP is incorporated in the State of New York. ANNUAL MEETING –  The 98th annual meeting of shareholders of American Electric Power Company will be held at 9:30 a.m.,  Central Daylight Time, Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at the Renais- sance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center, 6808 South 107th  East Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Admission is by ticket only. To  obtain a ticket, please note the instructions in the Notice of An- nual Meeting mailed to shareholders or call the Company. If you  hold your shares through a broker, please bring proof of share  ownership as of the record date. INQUIRIES REGARDING YOUR STOCK HOLDINGS – Registered share-  holders (shares owned by you, in your name) should contact  the Company’s transfer agent, listed below, if you have  questions about your account, address changes, stock transfer,  lost certificates, direct deposits, dividend checks and other  administrative matters. You should have your Social Security  number or account number ready; the transfer agent will not  speak to third parties about an account without the shareholder’s  approval or appropriate documents.  TRANSFER AGENT & REGISTRAR EquiServe Trust Company, N.A. (formerly First Chicago Trust Company of New York) P.O. Box 43069 Providence, RI 02940-3069 Telephone Response Group: 1-800-328-6955 Internet address: www.equiserve.com Hearing Impaired #: TDD: 1-800-952-9245 BENEFICIAL HOLDERS – (Stock Held in a Bank or Brokerage Ac- count, sometimes referred to as “Street Name”) – When you  purchase stock and it is held for you by your broker, it is listed  with the Company in the broker’s name, and this is sometimes  referred to as “street name” or a “beneficial owner.” AEP does  not know the identity of individual shareholders who hold their  shares in this manner; we simply know that a broker holds a  certain number of shares which may be for any number of cus- tomers. If you hold your stock in street name, you receive all  dividend payments, annual reports and proxy materials through  your broker. Therefore, if your shares are held in this manner,  questions about your account should be directed to your broker.  INTERNET ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT –  If you are a registered share- holder, you can access your account information through the  Internet at www.equiserve.com. Information about obtaining a  password is available toll-free at 1-877-843-9327.  DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT AND DIRECT STOCK PURCHASE PLAN – A Divi- dend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan is available  to all investors. It is an economical and convenient method of purchasing shares of AEP common stock, through initial cash  investments, cash dividends, and/or additional optional cash  purchases. You may obtain the Plan prospectus and enrollment  authorization form by contacting the transfer agent. 24 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE –  American Electric Power submitted  its Annual Certification of the Chief Executive Officer to the  New York Stock Exchange regarding the New York Stock  Exchange corporate governance listing standards on May 25,  2004. American Electric Power filed its Certifications of the  Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant  to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as Exhibits  31.1 and 31.2, respectively, to its Annual Report on Form 10-K  for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, filed with the SEC  on March 1, 2005. You can receive future annual reports, proxy statements and  proxies electronically rather than by mail; if you are a registered  shareholder, log on to www.econsent.com/aep. If you hold your  shares in street name, contact your broker. Deloitte & Touche LLP 155 East Broad St. Columbus, OH 43215 FINANCIAL COMMUNITY INQUIRIES –  Institutional investors or securi- ties analysts who have questions about the Company should di- rect inquiries to Julie Sloat, 614-716-2885, jsloat@AEP.com; Bette  Jo Rozsa, 614-716-2840, bjrozsa@AEP.com; or Adam Hickman,  614-716-2854, ajhickman@AEP.com. Individual shareholders  should contact Kathleen Kozero, 614-716-2819, klkozero@AEP. com, or April Dawson, 614-716-2591, addawson@AEP.com. FINANCIAL AND OTHER INFORMATION – Earnings and other financial  results, corporate news and company information are available  from Shareholder Direct at 1-800-551-1AEP (1237) anytime  day or night. Hard copies of information can be obtained  via fax or mail. Requests for annual reports, 10-K’s, 10-Q’s,  Proxy Statements and Summary Annual Reports should be  made through Shareholder.com. This same information is also  available on our website at www.AEP.com. INTERNET HOME PAGE –  Information about AEP, including financial  documents, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings,  news releases, investor presentations, shareholder information  and customer service information, is available on the Company’s  home page on the Internet at www.AEP.com.  NUMBER OF SHAREHOLDERS –  As of December 31, 2004, there were  approximately 130,000 registered shareholders and approxi- mately 261,000 individual shareholders holding stock in street  name through a bank or broker. There were 395,858,153 shares  outstanding at December 31, 2004. DIVIDENDS –  The Company paid $1.40 in cash dividends on com- mon stock in 2004, all of which are taxable for federal income  tax purposes. 35 cents per share was paid in each quarter. AEP  normally pays dividends on common stock four times a year,  generally around the 15th of March, June, September and December. AEP has paid 379 consecutive quarterly dividends on  common stock beginning in 1910. STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING – The Company’s common stock is  traded principally on the New York Stock Exchange under the  ticker symbol AEP. AEP stock has been traded on the NYSE for  56 years. INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM RECEIVE ANNUAL REPORTS AND PROXY MATERIALS ELECTRONICALLY –