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:

          (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) The number of Preferred Securities to be sold by Goldman, Sachs & Co.
is increased by 1,750.
     2) California Public Employees' Retirement System (Nominee name: Surfboard
& Co.) is added as a Selling Shareholder that owns 178,000 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 October 17, 2001