AES Corporation, (The): Update to credit analysis
AES’ credit profile reflects its scale, diversity, the structural subordination of its debt to subsidiary debt, limited financial flexibility and a complex capital structure.AES is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates a portfolio of electricity generation and distribution businesses. The first business line is generation, where the company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The second business line is utilities, where the company owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial and governmental sectors within a defined service area. In certain circumstances, the company's utilities also generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.
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