Birmingham, Alabama (Platts)--15Sep2008

The remnants of Hurricane Ike knocked out power to more 3 million
customers by Monday in the US Midwest as it moved inland and dissipated late
after making landfall over the weekend in Texas.

Ohio was hard hit with about two million Duke Energy, American Electric
Power and FirstEnergy customers losing power.

Duke Energy Monday still had 596,857 customers without power in Ohio and
Kentucky, down from a peak of 902,260.

The company had another 121,559 customers out in Indiana Monday, down
from 315,366 last night.

Duke Energy had sent workers from its Midwest service territory to help
restore outages in the Gulf Coast, but has now called them back following
Ike's impact in their home territory, a company spokesman said.

About 400,000 AEP customers in Ohio lost power Sunday, but the company
had not updated its outage information Monday.

FirstEnergy had about 400,000 of its Ohio Edison customers without power
Monday morning. Some 810,000 customers lost power when the high winds went
through the territory Sunday.

First Energy had and another 190,000 customers in Pennsylvania lose
power. About 105,000 of its Penn Power and Penelec customers were still
without power Monday morning.

FirstEnergy expects restoration of the widespread damage to
take several days, FirstEnergy spokesman Scott Surgeoner said. The damage was
limited to the company's distribution system, he said.

In Kentucky, about 280,000 Louisville Gas & Electric customers lost power
and another 65,000 KU customers were knocked offline Sunday night. E.ON, which
owns the two utilities, had not updated customer information Monday morning.

Nearly 51,000 Ameren customers were still without power in Illinois and
Missouri on Monday morning. The company did not say how many customers lost
power on Sunday.

Duquesne Power in Pennsylvania reported winds that gusted to 82 mph, as
strong as a Category 1 hurricane, company spokesman Joseph Vallarian said.
Duquesne at 10 am Monday had about 63,000 customers without power, down from
105,000. The company also expects restoration to take several days. Damage was
limited to the distribution system.

Allegheny Power had about 62,000 customers without power Monday morning
primarily in Pennsylvania, but a few, 5,700 in West Virginia. Allegheny had
96,670 customers without power when the high winds moved through on Sunday.
The damage was limited to distribution lines, Doug Colafella, a company
spokesman, said.

The US Department of Energy earlier Monday also reported 2,374,187
continuing outages in Texas, 125,990 in Louisiana and 107,963 in Arkansas.

Ike appears to have knocked out power to more than 5 million people
across the US at some point during its trajectory.