Exhibit 24

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

                             AEP GENERATING COMPANY
                 Annual Report on Form lO-K for the Fiscal Year
                                      Ended
                                December 31, 1998

      The undersigned  directors of AEP GENERATING  COMPANY, an Ohio corporation
(the "Company"),  do hereby constitute and appoint E. LINN DRAPER,  JR., ARMANDO
A.  PENA and  HENRY W.  FAYNE,  and each of them,  their  attorneys-in-fact  and
agents,  to execute for them,  and in their  names,  and in any and all of their
capacities,  the Annual Report of the Company on Form lO-K,  pursuant to Section
13 of the  Securities  Exchange Act of 1934,  for the fiscal year ended December
31, 1998, and any and all  amendments  thereto,  and to file the same,  with all
exhibits  thereto  and  other  documents  in  connection  therewith,   with  the
Securities and Exchange  Commission,  granting unto said  attorneys-in-fact  and
agents,  and each of them,  full power and authority to do and perform every act
and thing required or necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person,  hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said  attorneys-in-fact  and agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

      IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the undersigned have signed these presents this 24th
day of February, 1999.


  /s/ E. Linn Draper,Jr.              /s/ Wm. J. Lhota
E. Linn Draper, Jr.                 Wm. J. Lhota


  /s/ Henry W. Fayne                  /s/ James J. Markowsky
Henry W. Fayne                      James J. Markowsky


  /s/ John R. Jones, III              /s/ Armando A. Pena
John R. Jones, III                  Armando A. Pena