TULSA, OK, December 9, 2004 – Public Service Company of Oklahoma is doing the heavy lifting for Tulsa Public Schools at the district’s Ropes Course.  PSO is using a digger derrick truck to dig five-foot deep holes and set several 30-foot and 35-foot utility poles at the Ropes Course.

The project is actually an expansion of an existing TPS Ropes Course. The new poles being installed by PSO will enable the TPS Ropes facility to provide services for handicapped schoolchildren.  The facility is located at Memorial and Pine.

“PSO is pleased to partner with TPS to improve the Ropes Course and make the site even more challenging for special needs children,” said Carole Huff Hicks, PSO community affairs manager for Tulsa. “Our company believes it is important to give back to the community and the Ropes Course is a wonderful project for the school district.”

“A Ropes Course teaches participants the value of teamwork and the elements that are learned foster skill building and sharing.   These are the very skills that we practice every day in the workplace,” Hicks said.

PSO, a unit of American Electric Power, is an electric utility company serving more than 505,000 customers in eastern and southwestern Oklahoma.  Based in Tulsa, PSO has more than 4,000 megawatts of generating capacity and offers some of the lowest energy prices in the United States.

PSO’s parent company, American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), owns more than 36,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States and is the nation´s largest electricity generator.  AEP is also one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, with more than 5 million customers linked to AEP’s 11-state electricity transmission and distribution grid.  The company is based in Columbus, Ohio.