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American Electric Power Co. Inc., et al. – ‘8-K’ for 9/29/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Friday, 9/30/22, at 8:36am ET   ·   For:  9/29/22   ·   Accession #:  4904-22-84   ·   File #s:  1-03525, 333-217143

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 9/30/22  American Electric Power Co. Inc.  8-K:1,7,9   9/29/22   12:392K
          AEP Transmission Co., LLC

Current Report   —   Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     50K 
 2: EX-99.1     Miscellaneous Exhibit                               HTML     20K 
 7: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     54K 
10: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     12K 
 8: XML         XBRL Instance -- aep-20220929_htm                    XML     32K 
 9: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      8K 
 4: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- aep-20220929_def                 XML     49K 
 5: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- aep-20220929_lab                      XML    100K 
 6: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- aep-20220929_pre               XML     48K 
 3: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- aep-20220929                          XSD     13K 
11: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               16±    23K 
12: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000004904-22-000084-xbrl      Zip     31K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — aep-20220929_def

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