PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(TO PROSPECTUS DATED AUGUST 25, 2000)

9,200,000 Securities

AES TRUST VII

$3.00 Trust Convertible Preferred Securities ("Preferred Securities")

(Liquidation amount $50 per security) fully and unconditionally guaranteed by
and convertible into Common Stock of

THE AES CORPORATION

     AES Trust VII, a statutory business trust created under the laws of the
state of Delaware, issued and sold 9,200,000 $3.00 Trust Convertible Preferred
Securities ("Preferred Securities"), liquidation preference $50 per security in
transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended. We filed a registration statement (Registration No. 333-40870)
on August 24, 2000 ("Registration Statement"), in order to permit the holders of
the Preferred Securities to resell their Preferred Securities in offerings
registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On pages 57 through 59
of the Registration Statement, there is a table that lists:

        (i) each person selling Preferred Securities in connection with the
            prospectus (the "Selling Holders"); and

       (ii) the number of Preferred Securities beneficially owned by each such
            Selling Holder.

This prospectus supplement, which provides supplemental information to that
Registration Statement, adds certain additional information to the list of
Selling Holders:

        1) Bankers Trust Company Trustee for Daimler Chrysler Corp Emp#1 Pension
Plan dtd 4/1/89 is added as a Selling Holder that owns 58,000 Preferred
Securities

        2) State Street Bank Custodian for GE Pension Trust is added as a
Selling Holder that owns 28,500 Preferred Securities

        3) Franklin and Marshall College is added as a Selling Holder that owns
4,000 Preferred Securities

        4) Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company is added as a Selling
Holder 4,500 Preferred Securities

        5) Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. is added as a Selling Holder that owns
125,000 Preferred Securities

        6) Physicians Life is added as a Selling Holder that owns 13,677
Preferred Securities

        7) Arkansas Teachers Retirement is added as a Selling Holder that owns
128,889 Preferred Securities

        8) San Diego County Convertible is added as a Selling Holder that owns
84,663 Preferred Securities

        10) Boston Museum of Fine Arts is added as a Selling Holder that owns
3,833 Preferred Securities

        11) Engineers Joint Pension Fund is added as a Selling Holder that owns
17,473 Preferred Securities

        12) Wake Forest University is added as a Selling Holder that owns 30,114
Preferred Securities

        13) Nicholas Applegate Convertible Fund is added as a Selling Holder
that owns 51,571 Preferred Securities

        14) Babtist Health of South Florida is added as a Selling Holders that
owns 7,578 Preferred Securities


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        15) Pilgrim Convertible Fund is added as a Selling Holder that owns
207,668 Preferred Securities

        16) Wyoming State Treasurer is added a Selling Holder that owns 34,126
Preferred Securities

        17) Writers Guild is added as a Selling Holder that owns 10,827
Preferred Securities

        18) Champion International Convertible is added as a Selling Holder that
owns 22,772 Preferred Securities

        19) Screen Actors Pension is added as a Selling Holder that owns 16,776
Preferred Securities

        20) San Diego City Retirement is added as a Selling Holder that owns
35,033 Preferred Securities


     None of such Selling Holders has a material relationship with AES Trust VII
or The AES Corporation except as we have described in the accompanying
prospectus.






THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IS SEPTEMBER 28, 2000



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