HAZARD, KY  – A recent memorandum issued by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to circuit court clerks in Kentucky has led to the public perception of an extended electricity power outage in Leslie County, Saturday, Nov. 5.  Kentucky Power officials today said that no such power outage is planned affecting its customers in Leslie County and that the power outage referred to in the memo concerned a courthouse computer system and had nothing to do with Kentucky Power’s facilities or customers.

“No power outage is planned in Leslie County Saturday, Nov. 5,” said Mary Begley, community affairs manager for Kentucky Power.  “The belief that there is, or was, is simply a misunderstanding that we are trying to correct.”

Kentucky Power provides electricity to approximately 175,000 customers in all or parts of 20 Eastern Kentucky counties.  It is a unit of American Electric Power, the nation’s largest electricity generator.  AEP owns more than 36,000 megawatts of generating capacity and is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, with more than 5 million customers in 11 states.  AEP is based in Columbus, Ohio.