The AES Corporation, a diversified power generation and utility company, boasts a varied portfolio of power plants and utilities that it operates and owns. Their customers include utilities, industrial users, and intermediaries. The company supplies electricity to both residential and commercial sectors, and works across governmental sectors too. The corporation generates and sells electricity to end-users, and specializes in wholesale energy markets. With its use of an array of fuels and sustainable technologies, they use coal, gas, hydro, wind, solar, and biomass, as well as energy storage and landfill gas. In total, it operates a power network with an impressive 32,326 megawatts of power. The company has a presence in various regions worldwide, including the United States, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. Formerly trading as Applied Energy Services, Inc., the company officially became The AES Corporation in April 2000. The AES Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.