---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000004904-26-000063"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AEP"
cik: "0000004904"
company_name: "AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC"
filed_at: "2026-09-30T11:01:28+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T13:56:41.708080+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AEP nuclear development president Alicia Knapp exits in involuntary separation

## Summary
- Alicia Knapp, President Nuclear Development at American Electric Power, left the company on September 29, 2026; the filing calls the separation involuntary.
- Severance under AEP's Executive Severance Plan: one times current salary plus target annual incentive compensation, conditioned on her signing a severance, release and noncompetition agreement.
- Package also includes prorated vesting of performance shares and restricted stock units under AEP's long-term incentive plan.
- Agreement terms would bar Knapp from competing with AEP for one year and re-affirm non-solicitation, confidentiality, non-disparagement and cooperation covenants; no successor named.
- 8-K signed September 30, 2026 by Assistant Secretary David C. House; no reason for the departure or replacement plan disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000004904-26-000063
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AEP
- cik: 0000004904
- company_name: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC
- filed_at: 2026-09-30T11:01:28+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490426000063/0000004904-26-000063-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490426000063/aep-20260929.htm

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