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9/4/2019
AUSTIN, TX, Sept. 4, 2019 - Consumers and businesses are urged to reduce their electricity use on Thursday, Sept. 5 and Friday, Sept. 6, especially during the hours of 2 to 7 p.m.
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6/26/2019
At 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, more than 97 percent of the customers left without electricity after Monday's storm have been restored. Approximately 1,100 customers remain without power, mostly in the communities of Weslaco and San Benito.
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6/26/2019
At 11:30 a.m Wednesday, 2,100 customers remain without power after a storm brought heavy rains and flooding to the entire Rio Grande Valley Monday evening.
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6/26/2019
AEP Texas crews made significant headway Tuesday restoring electricity to more than 86 percent of the customers who were left without power after a storm brought heavy rains and flooding to the entire Rio Grande Valley Monday evening.
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6/25/2019
AEP Texas crews have restored electricity to more than 75 percent of the customers who were left without power after a storm brought heavy rains and flooding to the entire Rio Grande Valley Monday evening.
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6/25/2019
Approximately 9,200 customers remain without power after heavy rains and flooding moved through the Rio Grande Valley Monday evening. That number is down from the storm's peak of approximately 37,300 customer outages early Tuesday.
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6/25/2019
AEP Texas crews are working today to restore power to approximately 15,700 customers in the Rio Grande Valley after heavy rains and flooding affected the entire area Monday night.
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6/14/2019
(June 14, 2019) - Reports of scam attempts were reported earlier this week within the Abilene area and have spread to the Corpus Christi area over the past few days. Similar attempts in other parts of the AEP Service territory are anticipated. Customers are reminded to be very cautious if they receive calls from anyone identifying themselves as an AEP Texas employee and asking for payment to avoid disconnection of service.
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6/12/2019
Reports of scam attempts have been noted within the Abilene area this week. Customers are reminded to be very cautious if they receive calls from anyone identifying themselves as an AEP Texas employee and asking for payment to avoid disconnection of service.
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6/9/2019
As of 6:30 p.m. less than ten customers who could safely take electric service remained without power in the Kingsville area. Crews are in contact with those residents and are working to complete any remaining repairs.
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6/8/2019
As of 10:30 a.m., the number of remaining outages in the Kingsville area totaled 2,700. This compares with the 9,600 residents at the peak of the outages resulting from the storm that hit the area Thursday evening.
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6/7/2019
As of 6:30 p.m., approximately 5,000 Kingsville area residents remained without power. This compares with the 9,600 residents at the peak of the outages.
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5/1/2019
AUSTIN, Texas, May 1, 2019 - AEP Texas today filed a request with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) to adjust the transmission and distribution rates charged to retail electric providers (REPs). The company filed its last base rate case in November 2006.
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4/18/2019
AEP Texas officially opened its new, state-of-the-art Service Center facility in Alice, Texas, on Wednesday, April 17. The new 40,377 square-foot facility is located on a 13.6-acre site at 411 S. Duval in Alice.
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3/25/2019
The American Electric Power (AEP) Foundation awarded a $35,000 grant to the City of Port Aransas to help fund the restoration of the Joan & Scott Holt Paradise Pond.
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3/13/2019
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX., March 13, 2018 - AEP Texas on March 8 submitted an application to the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) seeking approval to securitize $229 million in distribution-related costs associated with restoration of service following Hurricane Harvey and earlier weather-related events.
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2/25/2019
AEP Texas officially dedicated its new, state-of-the-art Service Center facility in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Monday, February 25. The new 95,000 square-foot facility is located on a 22-acre site in Corpus Christi.
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2/15/2019
A $25,000 contribution from the American Electric Power Foundation will help ensure that clients of Sunshine House continue to receive a hot nutritious meal Monday through Friday, 52 weeks a year with frozen meals provided for holidays.
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1/4/2019
(Jan. 4, 2019) -- Over the past few days, AEP Texas has received reports in Laredo and other areas that scammers are contacting residents threatening to disconnect their electric service unless an immediate payment is made. Also, there have been periodic reports of individuals going door-to-door, asking to read the customer's electricity meter and then attempting to make a "low-cost offer for AEP power".