COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- American
Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) has named Matthew J. Satterwhite president and chief
operating officer of Kentucky Power, effective today.
Satterwhite, who previously served as senior counsel at AEP,
assumes responsibilities for distribution operations serving
169,000 customers in eastern Kentucky, as well as the operating unit's
safety, customer service, marketing, communications, community
affairs, governmental affairs and regulatory functions. He succeeds
Gregory G. Pauley, who is retiring
after 42 years of service at AEP. Satterwhite reports to
Charles Patton, president and chief
operating officer of Appalachian Power.
"Matt's deep regulatory experience and collaborative leadership
style will strengthen our efforts to build a smarter energy
infrastructure that continues to deliver safe, reliable electricity
to our customers in Kentucky well
into the future," Patton said.
Satterwhite, 43, came to AEP as senior counsel in 2008. In that
role, he served as a state regulatory attorney supporting
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky. He was the lead in-house counsel for
Kentucky Power in a number of proceedings before the Kentucky
Public Service Commission and has represented AEP before the
Supreme Court of Ohio. Prior to
joining AEP, he served as the Public Utility Master Commissioner at
the Supreme Court of Ohio for two
years. Satterwhite started his career at the Ohio Attorney General's office as an assistant
attorney general representing the Public Utilities Commission of
Ohio. He then joined the
commission staff as legal director of its Service, Monitoring and
Enforcement Department, overseeing staff attorneys, investigators
and auditors responsible for industry regulation.
Satterwhite holds an undergraduate degree in political science
from the University of Kansas and a
juris doctor from Capital Law School. Satterwhite, whose wife Cathy
is a public school teacher, has been an elected member of the
Licking Heights School Board in Ohio for eight years, serving as president or
vice president five times during his tenure.
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities
in the United States, delivering
electricity and custom energy solutions to nearly 5.4 million
customers in 11 states. AEP owns the nation's largest electricity
transmission system, a more than 40,000-mile network that includes
more 765-kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all
other U.S. transmission systems combined. AEP also operates 224,000
miles of distribution lines. AEP ranks among the nation's largest
generators of electricity, owning approximately 31,000 megawatts of
generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also supplies 3,200 megawatts
of renewable energy to customers. AEP's utility units operate as
AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West
Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky
Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power
Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP's headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.
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SOURCE American Electric Power