Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) (IOU)
48
Serves 182,900 customers, $815,635.00 of sales and provides 6,746 GWhs of electricity per year. 152,500 are residential.
Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) is a full service/vertically integrated energy provider that is owned by AEP and serves the northeastern part of the state, as well as a small area of the panhandle. While they have made some modest investments in energy efficiency in Texas, thus far their investments in renewable energy is very small. As a company, they have pledged to obtain about 36% of their energy from renewable energy by 2034, including investments in Texas wind. In late 2020, they did agree to close both of their coal plants, Pirkey in 2023 and Welsh in 2028. However, in terms of renewable energy, as of the end of 2020, they had only invested in two large wind projects in Texas.
Because it's a vertically integrated (full service) investor owned utility, the energy side if its business was also scored (+0 to +30). SWEPCO's additional score is +9
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2022
48
2021
51
2020
49
2019
41
