What Could American Electric Power Company (AEP) Gain From 12 Indiana SMRs? Sasha Jovanovic Fri, November 13, 2026 at 12:17 AM EST 3 min read AEP -0.23% AMZN +0.79% Explore stocks on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
American Electric Power Company (NasdaqGS:AEP), Amazon and X-energy are exploring the deployment of up to 12 small modular nuclear reactors at a former coal plant in Indiana.
The parties plan to assess repurposing existing coal infrastructure at the site to host X-energy reactors and supporting facilities.
Amazon is being evaluated as a contracted buyer of future output from the reactors to supply long-duration power for its operations and data centers.
This potential SMR buildout at an AEP coal site is worth weighing alongside the rest of our findings on the utility. Our analysis turns up 2 warning signs (1 major) for American Electric Power Company as well.
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American Electric Power Company is a US electric utility group that generates, transmits, and distributes power to retail and wholesale customers, so a potential move into small modular reactors would plug directly into its role as a large grid operator. Its scale as a US$70.2b utility gives it an existing network where any new long-duration supply could be integrated and contracted out to power-hungry customers such as data centers.
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AEP has just created AEP Infrastructure to focus on large-load customers and new generation tied to long term contracts, and a 960 MW SMR cluster with Amazon fits that brief cleanly. Repurposing an Indiana coal site into nuclear capacity would tap existing grid assets while targeting data center style demand that AEP is already organizing around.
The existing Narrative centers on a big capital plan, contracted large loads of 69 GW through 2030 and long duration agreements with hyperscalers, and this SMR study sits in that same lane. If it moves ahead, the project would reinforce the idea that data center customers are willing to underwrite new generation, which is one of the key catalysts behind the current story.
See how these catalysts shape American Electric Power Company's path to a $143 fair value.
The clearest marker will be whether AEP, Amazon and X-energy move from feasibility into a binding power purchase agreement that locks in Amazon as a long term offtaker for a defined portion of the 960 MW output. A signed PPA, with term length and pricing structure disclosed, would show this concept has moved beyond study stage into a real project pipeline item for AEP Infrastructure.
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