# American Electric Power — news releases — generated connector definition (see docs/connectors/aep.md)
id: aep
name: "American Electric Power \u2014 news releases"
domain: www.aep.com
kind: utility
mode: rss
priority: 2
license: "Corporate press releases; facts and links only"
attribution: "American Electric Power (aep.com)"
homepage: https://www.aep.com/
notes: "AEP (Ohio, Indiana, Texas, Virginia\u2026) announces large-load / data center interconnection agreements. robots.txt is 404."
coverage: { countries: ["US"] }
fetch:
  level: 1
  maxLevel: 2
  rpm: 10
  concurrency: 1
  respectRobots: true
  maxCreditsPerRun: 0
discovery:
  rss:
    - "/news/rss/"
  include: ["/news/releases/read/\\d+"]
  classify:
    - { pattern: "/news/releases/read/", group: newsroom, pageType: press_release, priority: 70 }
schedule:
  newsroom: daily
  rss: daily
extractors:
  news:
    pageTypes: [press_release, project_announcement, expansion, acquisition, construction_update, planning_document, power_infrastructure, utility_announcement, closure, cloud_region, financial_disclosure, facility_page, operator_page, unknown]
    kind: news_event
    parser: news_article_v1
    params: { keepText: true }