They are horrible. Even when you pay the full bill on time, they somehow have a late fee on your next bill. And even when you pay the disconnect fee they add more fees on top of it later on. They do not work with you at all despite your situation. They dont care. Worst company ever they shouldn't even be in business. ​ read more

electric bills / rates / taxes are completely off the wall and a load of crap. and they won't do anything to help you. And there's not a single other electric company i can use. read more

Every time we call for an emergency disconnect, the people on the phone NEVER EVER put it in the schedule correctly. Every time, we have to wait 5-6+ hours for an UNSAFE service to be pulled. No hate to the men doing the work though, they're great. read more

It's a rip off. 50% of our bill is taxes and fees. Where I lived previously was a fraction of the cost (On avg 30% of the bill was taxes and fees) and if I could afford to move back I would. If I can ever afford to go solar I will. How are they allowed to charge such ridiculous fees when American Electric Power gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2025 was $14.844B according to macrotrends.net. read more

this is crazy!!!! you paying over 2000 a month in rent on top of all your other bills then i get a bill for 531.99!!! aint no way i used that much electricity!!! you guys should be ashame how you are gouging your customers!!! and the " different plans" are a joke!!!! i make entirely to much to get on pip!!! how fo you expect people to survive out here!!! i wish there was another electric company cause i would can yall behinds! read more

Why is my protected next electric bill, 76.00 under my mortgage? Let me get some things straight. My mortgage is 696.00 a month, that is principal and interest, insurance AND taxes. My next projected bill is 602.00. My thermostat is at 68. I have three jobs, I'm never home, but next months bill is 76.00 dollars less than my mortgage. Eat a dick ceo of aep choke on your cornflakes, have a stroke, don't recover. When my electric bill is as much as my mortgage and almost my food bill you're a greedy sob. read more

1st - I call to get service turned on to a place I just got and was accused very bluntly, rudely, and insultingly of stealing power and was told I.had to provide a proof of residence of where I was staying at the time, a copy of my new lease, and proof from the landlord that he owned the place and pay a $416 deposit 2nd - I did all of this and was told verbatim that those requirements being met was all I needed to get the power turned on then two days later I call to see why it's not on only to find out that I needed to find an inspector to get approval of equipment to get the service turned (cost another $200) ....had I not called. No one was going to call me to let me know I needed to do that as if it was ok to leave me waiting in November with no heat, hot showers or light 3rd I send this in and they act as if it's ok for me not to know when the power is going to be turned on and they're department is backed up as if I should be understanding that they can't do their job in a timely manner 4th I ask to speak with a supervisor who said none of this requires them to expedite my power being turned on and was bluntly told it will not be expedited and when I asked this rude woman Mrs Pennington who her supervisor was or what her contact info was she flat refused to tell me and told me to call the customer support number which is the same number I had been calling this entire time as if that's been any help at all. 5th I have an 11 year old daughter who can't come here as well as a mother on oxygen who also can't come here until it gets turned on and that doesn't seem to matter to them I would love if someone from AEP would call me and take some accountability as well as fix my issue so that yelp is as far as I go with this complaint because I know in my heart that a company this large that has made it this long has to have a higher standard of customer service than I've been shown to date my name is marc Harless and they have my contact information on file read more

Predatory company, had a payment arrangement and they disconnected my power before 5PM today even though I had a payment arrangement set up. They need to be sued for predatory practices read more

This neighborhood is consistent in one thing and that's power outages.Lasting for days not hours.Send texts of restoration times that never happen then send another with a farther out time.Their rates with all sorts of surcharges keep going up but yet they cannot maintain their lines. Resulting in frequent outages. There are trees in this neighborhood they spray paint every year as a tag their to be trimmed.Same tree for the last three years.And not once has any trimming been done to it. read more

just received our bill. Because of finances we have paid the bill late a few times in the past year. paying late comes with an additional fee, and we have always accepted that. sometimes due dates don't line up with pay dates. Now we have an additional $3000 deposit to pay because of the late payments - never missed payments- just a day or 2 late. Someone explain that to me. if I'm struggling to make payments how exactly how I going to handle an extra $3000? read more

They are a power company. My power has gone out twice this week. No explanation as usual. And this is normal. Neighbors are all in the same boat. Unfortunately we are locked where we are with terrible service and have been for 26 years. read more

I'm a veteran and have cancer, and a budget to stick with because I can't work. It's just me and my dog at my house. My electric bill is out of control over $600, I can even afford food half the time because I pay more in electric. How is someone supposed to live. Stop raising prices. And I agree with all of the other reviews about the tree trimming, waste of time and money. PUCO should fine AEP for fraud. read more

We have non-weather-related power outages regularly with this company. The very/only thing we pay them for (against our will, given that they are essentially a monopoly) is the thing they are bad at. read more

AEP is a price-gouging monopoly. Why has Ohio allowed a for-profit company to rob working-class residents to pay rich shareholders? The delivery charges from AEP are consistently more than the actual electricity supply costs, typically making up 2/3 of my total bill. read more

horrible company, that don't care about customers or employee, lineman do there best but when the company care more about profits then people. I think I would have better power from a hamster in a wheel. read more

Be cautious when dealing with this organization. There have been reports from customers in lower-income neighborhoods of inflated meter readings, leading to unexpectedly high bills. Consider reviewing billing statements carefully and documenting meter readings for accuracy. This is not a corporate-friendly neighbor. read more

AEP was out do to a neighbor calling about sparks coming from the line in a recent storm. They showed up and turned off my power without any notice. And while I was at work, proceeded to trim my trees. But the worst part was they left a huge mess of large limbs in my backyard. (See photo). I called asking if they were going to come back but no one answered and I had to leave a message. 3 days went by and I eventually had to pay a tree company $200 to remove the limbs or my grass would have died under the mass. Terrible service. read more

American Electric Power - Utilities Near Me - Columbus, Ohio

For as much as they keep hiking the bills the service is unreliable. Restoration times are unacceptable and inexcusable. Going on day 3 without power and they keep clearing the report time and resetting it without repair. read more

Transmission Service $ 6.22 Distribution Service 13.72 Customer Charge 10.00 = $29.94 (no matter how much or how little electricity I use!) $0.0799 / kWhr rate $1.85 charge for using a credit card Bill layout is awkward: more legalese that anything, and useful info. is spread over 2 pages. Outages whenever the temp.s go above 90 for awhile or storms hit. Transmission and Distribution charges jump up and down (as if a company can't plan ahead and amortize their costs?) (Do they perform any proactive maintenance?) read more

Absolutely horrible. Running 2 heaters and a stock tank heater in a tiny cabin, 12x16 and the bill is just at $500. Not to mention all the random outages in good weather. Price gouging at its finest. read more

what an actual dog poop of a company iv ever had the pleasure of dealing with. don't deal with billing ever because you'll be on the phone for hours for something that should take 5 minutes. can't even get a god damn refund without paying a credit and who knows if you'll ever see that credit read more

Turned my power off in the middle of winter for a $57.00 late bill that I had forgotten to pay..... Yep for a 57 dollar past due amount read more

I'd like to officially declare AEP as the worst company on the entire planet. Let me give you some insight. We went on a week long vacation, and apparently someone accidentally tried to start service at our location, so they shut off our power without letting us know. We then come back to a cold appartment with a fridge full of rotten food. customer service couldn't even trace why our power went off until someone called us back and gave an explanation. They don't even have a full proof way of verifying whether or not someone still lives at a current address, what a joke. It'll prolly be better to be homeless than to trust aep with anything regarding your house, imagine if this happened in the winter and the pipes burst!! read more

Instead of replaceing old equipment AEP just puts a bandade repair on it. Yesterday I was without power for 8 hours as a result of a transformer that had caught fire in the area. This particular transformer has caught fire before but instead of replaceing it they just keep it going. I know aep has enough money to make replacements instead of repairs. I use to live in another part of Ohio and they did the same thing. The transformer would blow but instead of replaceing it it was just repaired, worked for a while and then boom! out again. This must be their practice, put a bandade repair on equipment and kick the can down the road. read more

American Electric Power is a standard giant utility, and so they really don't care about their small customers. But the service isn't gawdawful, either. Two contrasting cases: 1. We installed Ruud 17-SEER heat pumps in our home. AEP offers rebates, but only (a) if you install with one of *their* contractors and (b) only if the equipment is made by one of *their* manufacturers. It's a kickback scheme, not a true rebate system. 2. We installed solar panels, which entailed changing our meter to one that can handle net metering. The installation was completely painless and things are working perfectly fine. They don't offer EV rebates, by the way; the only EV rebate system they have is a kickback scheme for government or commercial sites installing charging stations. Nothing for home chargers or EV purchases. read more

Absolute garbage customer service. They won't work with you in any capacity. Their whole job is to say sorry that sucks, genetic customer service empathy nonsense. Unfortunately they are the only provider here read more

If I could leave no stars, I would. VERY upset w this company. It's the _______ of Ohio, our only choice, and yet somehow after calling 2 set up new service they had somehow signed me up for spectrum services.i only found out by looking in my email and finding an order confirmation number! I'm really confused as to how this happened and so I called. I haven't been able to speak with anyone regarding this fact either or to cancel spectrum. This should NEVER happen! If there was any other power companies I could choose, I absolutely would. read more

I unfortunately have no choice, I have to stay with AEP. I've been a customer for over 6 years. I missed ONE payment due to using a wrong card along with insufficient funds. First time ever, for the next year I have to pay by phone, check or go there. I can't use their app, due to this issue. There needs to be an "update" their policies, along with some type of forgiveness. I get it, I made a mistake, that being said. I went through all thier hoops, to not be helped in any way. read more

AEP is not in the business of communication. I recently experienced my first run-in with the power company after moving into my first post-college apartment. We called to have the electric switched to our names and gave the name of a current AEP customer for a sort of collateral to get our application fee waived. It seemed simple enough. We moved in and were distracted by the whirlwind of things you have to take care of in that first month of settling. Around the fifth week we began to wonder where our bill was. We had moved into the apartment mid month and thought that maybe they were holding our half-bill to be sent with our full-bill, so we'd be paying a month-and-a-half our first go around. We patiently waited. Then week six came and went. We called AEP to see what was going on. Where was our bill? They informed us that the power had never officially been switched to our name. Somehow, there had been a screw up. They were going to turn our power off within the week. They hadn't even sent us a notice to tell us about this! We got everything straightened out without having to pay any kind of late fee or anything, but the idea of them messing up our application, not switching the electric into our names, and then preparing to turn our power off without any sort of communication is absurd. They need a few training sessions on customer service skills. read more

American Electric Power - Utilities Near Me - Columbus, Ohio

I'd give AEP 4 stars if they didn't have a monopoly on the second most important utility in Central Ohio. What's the first? Water, of course. I can't say that I'm mad at AEP or upset with their customer service. Although, I have to say that it would be nice if I could get through to a customer service rep within 3 minutes instead of 10. We've only lost our power a few times over the last 4 years. We even survived Hurricane Ike's 70+ mph winds last September by only losing power for a couple of hours while our neighbors lost power for 2 days! For that miracle, I gave AEP 3 stars instead of 2. Finally, I am a big fan of open competition in our free market capitalistic society (or what's left of it) and the monopoly of utilities tends to create inflated pricing much like a socialist regime. On the other hand, if there were more competitors, the quality of this vital utility might be compromised to some degree, but not enough to sacrifice lower costs. All-in-all, I'm neither upset nor elated by AEP and their service. I'm glad they're hard at work ensuring our access to electricity, but it would be nice if they improved their turnaround time and lowered their prices. read more

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I'm 61 and in poor health and I went this morning to call customer service to ask a question and all I got a "virtual" machine which couldn't help. I finally got through to live rep after minutes, literally 15 and was immediately put on hold, I stayed on the phone for another 12 minutes and the line finally seem I was going to be connected but as soon as I did, I heard someone and they through me back in the que, needless to say had to repeat the whole process with the "virtual" machine AGAIN which again took minutes. I waited and then the line went dead and dial tone. This wasn't me but AEP's customer service. Greedy old AEP could care less about residential customers and try to help during the pandemic but not AEP. Just ask the people last winter in Texas. I do want to commend Columbia Gas for what they have done for their customers on fixed income instead of 6% they are taking 5%. It's not a lot but the gesture of trying to help is what I give them credit. You think AEP would do the same but not greedy AEP! read more

AEP strategically cut power in poorer neighborhoods during near triple digit temperatures (that likely live in apartments and have less access to cooler basements) rather than even trying to ask richer areas to reduce their power consumption. Despicable company. read more

As many have said all they care about is there employees in there social media its all about what there doing not about customers who they rape with extreme high rates they put a new telephone pole in my yard and left dirt and hills of dirt in my yard it will sit there till telephone pole rots for all i care called there customer service the lady practically blamed me i hung up on her insulting self there rates are so high this company has 1 goal make poor folk homeless with high bills there not welcome on my property ever if i could help it . Louisville Ohio the piles of dirt can grow with weeds forever i'll let Twp. and Aep clean it up not my mess Aep made it not me . read more

I lived in Powell years ago for 10 years. At that time Powell was rural so most of us had back up heat. Once there was a power failure but it was due to Powell growing faster than the transformers. I read every review only cause its a habit of mine. I find a lot of the problems people had here with AEP is their own personal responsibility. BAD CREDIT is a biggie-you are now paying for all that student debt you skipped payments on. Fix your credit and your life would be more hassle free. It is your responsibility to alert your utilities (water, electric, direct tv)that you moved. Period. And check again to make sure they closed that account. Oh and did you have good credit with the utility company? Oh so you didn't pay a few bills last year...don't expect them to go head over heels for you. You have to go online to double check that it went thru-you would do that with online banking depositing that check from mommy & daddy why won't you check your utility account to make sure it is closed? And with rebates-you ALWAYS need to read the requirements. That is not the utilities problem but the customer for not being a good shopper. And with wind, you better figure out how much wattage you use in a day, then compute what the solar puts out-and see proof from the manufacture cause guess what, they lie-then see how many sunny days you had the last 5 years (farmers almanac) . People eyes glass over when the solar panel salesman (a step lower from a bridge salesman) tells you that you can sell your extra electric-what a joke! There isn't any extra power, and you will find you still have to buy, and those $22,000 solar panels will never pay off. I wish High Schools would teach a class 9-12 called LIFE. Our younger generations really lack in knowledge they need just for living. If you want to experience a bad electric company, move to Maine. Every time the wind blows 30 mph+ you have to start preparing for the black out. Keep jugs of frozen water in the freezer-will buy you a few hours of coolness. Charge up all the spare batteries for phones, and on internet. Buckets of water for the toilet cause water to flow needs electric pumps.They are a Canadian company-think they care about us? Other problems I see is not AEP or any other utility companies fault. See all those extra charges? Thank politicians-Al Gore is responsible for one, The local gov forcing the electric utility to buy that promised (see solar panels) high wattage trash burning electric plant. Thank Washington DC for all the regulations put on utilities for fake science and untrue facts COST YOU MONEY added right into your bills. Do research on your house representatives on what bills they supported-go back as much as you can to see which party is the most active in doing this. Then there's house representatives from other states trying to make a name for themselves so will come out with statements that are so far from the truth you have to laugh-but this only creates more hysteria, so the party that likes to do add ons to your utilities can add EVEN MORE and YOU WILL LIKE IT feeling you are saving the earth, when in fact its all a lie. People actually think cooling towers that are releasing steam is pollution. read more

I'm kind of done with AEP. I wish that there were more options for people who rent, but unfortunately, AEP is everywhere. I just spent 40+ minutes on the phone with AEP disputing my bill. Eventually, they fixed my budget amount. The rep that I spoke with quoted an amount (about $150) and I said cool, set up the agreement for the plan, end of story. About 2 minutes later, a voicemail pops up on my phone and it's the same rep telling me that the $150 isn't correct and my ACTUAL budget amount needs to be more like $300 because of the history of use at the address (which I just moved in to BTW.) In what universe is this okay? I promptly called back and spoke to someone else, who I think fixed the issue, although the $150 amount is "no longer possible." But seriously, WTF? I have never been anywhere or dealt with anyone where it has been acceptable to agree to a budgeted amount and then call back leaving a voicemail doubling the original amount. If you work in customer service and you don't know what you're doing, find another job, ask for more training, etc. Do what you have to do, or just simply say "I don't know" and transfer me to someone else. read more

I went grocery shopping this last Saturday and loaded up my fridge and freezer. I finally gave up on day 4 with no power and threw all my shit away. Now my fridge smells funny. And I have learned I am afraid of the dark. read more

My fiancee recently disagreed with the amount we were being charged on our electric bill. Nonetheless, we saw the AEP people at the Ohio State Fair this year and told them how our bill has always been so high. They were so nice that we got a free inspection of our place and AEP will personally suggest what we need to do to save less on our energy consumption. read more

I wish I could give them 0 stars. I really like Columbus, but it seems like every time someone sneezes, we lose power. I grew up on the East Coast, where we get some nasty storms and occasionally the remnants of hurricanes. We don't lose power like this. I even lived on the Delaware beaches for two summers--and that was years ago. Hellacious storms, and no power outages like this. Suburbs of Philly--same thing: maybe two power outages (once when a driver ran into a pole) in 10 years, with the longest lasting about 3 hours. That was considered an incredibly long time. In fact, you could call a line and get an estimated time to restoration of power based on your address. There were many things I didn't like about PECO, but they were excellent at keeping the lights on. Days of outages? Just did not happen. Ever. More than 10 years in Chicago. Same thing again: no power outages like this. Maybe 30 minutes here and there. In my development, perhaps 20% of houses now have standby generators! That's like something I saw in the developing world, in Koh Samui, Thailand, a beautiful, tiny island in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand. It made sense there. You could get around the entire island on a scooter in maybe an hour, and they were exposed to typhoons and monsoons. But here? It's just unacceptable. Columbus, other areas of the country do not live with these sorts of power outages, and they have storms, above-ground lines, icing, and strong winds just like central Ohio. I am so glad to see AEP sweating because of deregulation. And they ARE sweating, or else they wouldn't be resisting competition so fiercely and spending your money on misleading ads. Record profits but undependable infrastructure? That's just not acceptable. There needs to be some sort of incentive for them to keep the lights on. Maybe mandatory rebates based on the amount of time the lights go out. Maybe doubled or tripled to account for inconvenience, inability to work from home, and spoiled food. Perhaps they should have to pay for standby generators for those of us who need them (pretty much everyone), since they cannot provide dependable electricity. I'm with First Energy now, and I do save about 10% on the energy generation portion of my bill. The distribution/transmission portion doesn't change, because that still comes from our hapless friends at AEP. I wish I could have First Energy, Duke, Excelon--anyone but AEP--take over the entire infrastructure, because it could not possibly be worse. read more

Okay, so my power returned this evening. My Fourth of July will be better for this. Nevertheless, the one-star rating still stands. read more

I just recently moved into my new home and on 12/12, submitted my deposit. Came home that evening to no power. I recieved NO notice that it was shut off. Called, and received VERY little help from the representative. He was extremely rude. Today, 12/16, I called because it was STILL not back on. The representative I spoke with told me it would be on by 8pm because today was the third business day, he told me to call around 8 to make sure it was back on because I had driven 40 minutes to a family member. DID NOT grab anything from home because I planned on coming back. It is shortly after 8pm, so I called them back to make sure....the representative i spoke with THEN told me it was NOT reconnected and would not be back on until tomorrow 12/17 and she "did not know where the other person I spoke to, got his information." I am SO extremely angry. This is thee absolute WORST customer experience I have ever had. I have had NO electric at home for 5 days now. That is 5 days, i have had to sleep on the couch of a family member and drive 45 minutes to work every day rather than 12 minutes, as well as remove my cat from her home as well. If I could, I would give them a 0 rating. read more