-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, H375x0m1T5Ddgnx8b+mnDy7Pr6QlnsSbM9DhNPx2jG8/VCYSyuxl3X9jhwlhoDEF bmFDggxZQZu2Etb041vxZw== 0000950103-00-500129.txt : 20001215 0000950103-00-500129.hdr.sgml : 20001215 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950103-00-500129 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 424B3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20001214 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AES CORPORATION CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000874761 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COGENERATION SERVICES & SMALL POWER PRODUCERS [4991] IRS NUMBER: 541163725 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-40870 FILM NUMBER: 788979 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1001 N 19TH ST STREET 2: STE 2000 CITY: ARLINGTON STATE: VA ZIP: 22209 BUSINESS PHONE: 7035221315 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AES TRUST VII CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001117084 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: [] FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-40870-01 FILM NUMBER: 788980 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1001 NORTH 19TH ST CITY: ARLINGTON STATE: VA ZIP: 22209 BUSINESS PHONE: 7035221315 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1001 NORTH 19TH ST CITY: ARLINGTON STATE: VA ZIP: 22209 424B3 1 aes1214-424b3.htm AES TRUST VII  
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(TO PROSPECTUS DATED AUGUST 24, 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:
 

  1. each person selling Preferred Securities in connection with the prospectus (the "Selling Holders"); and
  2. 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) Merrill Lynch Investment Managers-Quantitative Advisors is added as a Selling Holder that owns 100,000 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 DECEMBER 14, 2000
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