AES Corporation

For more than two decades, AES has helped drive energy sector growth and pioneered advances in many markets, generating global industry leadership from innovation and operational excellence.

AES is a global power company with generation and distribution businesses across five continents. Founded in 1981, AES built its first power plant in 1985 in Texas, which was also one of the first competitive power plants in the United States. During AES’s first five years, we added three plants in the US, and began looking for opportunities to take our financing, construction and operational experience global.

In the early 1990’s, as markets opened up globally, AES began generating electricity in the United Kingdom, and expanded to Argentina, Pakistan, China, Hungary and Brazil. An early mover, in 1998 we acquired a minority stake in a power plant in the first and only generation privatization in India. In West Africa and Central America, we have brought electricity to places that never knew reliable power, while electrifying urban centers, including São Paulo and Indianapolis. We have helped pioneer new pollution control technologies and biomass conversions while expanding — to Qatar, Oman, Sri Lanka, Cameroon—and more recently to Bulgaria, where we are building our single largest greenfield project investment to date. We have also brought renewable sources of energy to market through acquisition and development through AES Wind Generation in the US, China and Europe, and AES Solar Energy, LLC our JV with Riverstone Holidngs.

Today, through our portfolio of thermal and renewable fuel sources -- biomass, coal, diesel, gas, hydropower, solar, wind - we safely provide afforable and sustainable energy in 29 countries. Throughout our history, the people of AES have always stayed at the forefront of change, as a positive force in the energy sector as well as the communities in which we work and live. With significant global reach, deep local knowledge and distinctive operational skills, we are committed to operational excellence and to meeting the world's changing energy needs.

AES was founded on the principle that strong businesses are built on trust, accountability and an environment that allows people to reach their full potential.

AES has been a values-based enterprise from the very beginning. We have always believed in integrity as a prerequisite for the success we seek. We think of work as fun, and by that we mean thoroughly engaging, challenging, rewarding and enjoyable. Our culture is energetic, collaborative and thrives on a passion for individual and collective excellence. And we have always believed in the power of making a difference wherever we work and live.

Our concern for the environment and the communities we serve has influenced our decision-making since the beginning. Our businesses support their local communities through a wide variety of corporate responsibility programs. We helped pioneer technologies for utilizing coal more cleanly because it was the right thing to do—both as a business and as a corporate citizen. We recognized two decades ago that climate change demanded action, and began planting 50 million trees in Guatemala as our first of many initiatives on that front. Our climate change business today carries that spirit, and commitment, forward.

AES remains a dynamic enterprise that is distinguished and defined by the extraordinary talent and commitment of our people. AES people share knowledge worldwide, work in teams and enjoy a unique mix of accountability and the freedom to grow. And as a learning organization, we provide the support, training and guidance to make sure AES people learn, grow and succeed.

The AES business culture is unmistakably dynamic and consistent across our businesses around the world—despite a tremendous diversity in geography, languages and cultures—because of the quality of people we seek and keep. Our people believe in what we do, love a challenge and are energized by each opportunity to innovate and excel.