GAHANNA, Ohio, Nov. 5, 2014 — As a way to educate customers about its Appliance Recycling Program, AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP), has selected Canton artist, Su Nimon, to turn an inefficient freezer into a work of art.
The AEP Ohio Appliance Recycling Program is part of the company’s initiative to help customers use less energy, decrease energy costs, conserve natural resources and protect the environment. AEP Ohio customers can earn a $50 rebate when they schedule their inefficient refrigerator or freezer to be recycled. AEP Ohio will pick up the appliance free of charge and haul it away.
Over the past month, Nimon has been transforming a 1950s, vintage freezer in the front window of her gallery, Journey Art Gallery in downtown Canton. The fully transformed freezer will be on display at the gallery during Canton’s First Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and it will continue to be on display through late November.
“It was fun to visualize this old freezer as something new,” said Nimon. “As a visual artist, my goal is to inspire and enrich. I want this freezer to bring feelings of freedom, inspiration and encouragement.”
Nimon grew up in Ohio, and although she has spent much of her life as an engineer and later a graphic designer, she dove back into the fine arts when she opened her first studio in 2007. She specializes in expressive acrylic painting. Nimon hosts a series of painting, yoga and meditation classes at her studio each week.
Recycling an old refrigerator or freezer can save up to $150 a year in energy costs, and helps protect the environment. For additional information about AEP Ohio’s energy efficiency programs, visit AEPOhio.com/WasteLess.
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AEP Ohio provides electricity to nearly 1.5 million customers of major AEP subsidiaries Ohio Power Company in Ohio. AEP Ohio is based in Gahanna, Ohio, and is a unit of American Electric Power. News and information about AEP Ohio can be found at AEPOhio.com.
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation’s largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns the nation’s largest electricity transmission system, a 40,000-mile network that includes more 765 kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined. AEP’s transmission system directly or indirectly serves about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern Interconnection, the interconnected transmission system that covers 38 eastern and central U.S. states and eastern Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the electricity demand in ERCOT, the transmission system that covers much of Texas. AEP’s utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east and north Texas). AEP’s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio. News releases and other information about AEP can be found at AEP.com.
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