AES Indiana (“AES” or “the Company”) is an American utility company providing electric service to Central Indiana. It is a subsidiary and the largest utility of the AES Corporation. AES Indiana provides electric service to more than 520,000 customers in a 528-square-mile service territory in and around Indianapolis. For more information, refer to AES Indiana's website at www.aesindiana.com.

AES Indiana is issuing this all-source Request for Proposals (“RFP”) and will consider both intermittent and dispatchable resources, as well as short-term bridge resources, in support of the Company's capacity needs. Through this solicitation, AES Indiana intends to identify resources for contracting or development to serve long-term needs, fill near-term capacity requirements, and inform the Company's long-term resource planning. AES Indiana is committed to providing a reliable supply of electric power to its customers. In order to ensure adequate and reliable capacity and energy supplies to meet its customers' needs, AES Indiana seeks to acquire additional capacity that, at a minimum, meets industry-wide reliability and performance criteria and existing new source requirements for electric generation and storage facilities.

AES Indiana has retained Charles River Associates (“CRA”) to manage the RFP process for the purpose of creating the RFP and soliciting responses. CRA will also serve as the independent third party to evaluate all proposals on behalf of the Company.

Several important milestone dates for the RFP process are shown below: