The AES Corporation

AES Corporation provides various services related to power, such as production and sales. It owns and operates power plants that offer power to utilities, major industrial buyers, and middlemen. AES Corp. also runs electric providers that create, buy, transmit, and sell energy to individual residences, businesses, manufacturing businesses, and the government. The company produces and trades electricity on the wholesale market. This organization utlilizes several sources of energy and technologies to produce electrical energy, comprised of coal, gas, hydroelectric, wind, solar and biomass as well as other sustainable resources such as energy storage and landfill gas. It has a capacity of 31,459 megawatts, with business ventures located in United States, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. The AES Corporation, previously known as Applied Energy Services, Inc., altered its identity to its current name in April of 2000. It was founded in 1981, and is situated in Arlington, Virginia.