Ohio Power Company

Indiana has also taken a different approach, and they have seen investment flow into Indiana.

AEP Ohio was the utility that I mentioned, I think, a couple minutes ago that put the tariff in effect.

They had a 30 gigawatt load forecast, then they put a tariff in place through the PUCO and it dropped to 5.7 gigawatts.

I think that certainly gives you far more comfort that 5.7 is closer to the real number than 30.

So it does apply to a small pot of people.

And again, there are more than 200,000 households that are 30 days past due on their AEP bills according to an AEP Ohio spokesperson.

And for about each million dollars, that helps like 2,000 households.

So this isn't going to help every single person with an overdue bill.

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As energy bills are rising, there's a program from AEP Ohio to help.

ONN's Stacia Nakhen has details with Julia Ivinskas, Director of Customer Experience for AEP Ohio.

It's called the Neighbor-to-Neighbor Fund.

To apply, you have to be at least 30 days past due on your bill with a balance over $50.

It's a one-time payment, so that is an increase from last year.

They were $350 max last year, so now you can get up to $500 annually.

AEP Ohio says the higher costs are because of the increase to generate power and the supply and demand imbalance.