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:
- each person selling Preferred Securities in connection with the prospectus (the "Selling Holders"); and
- 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:
- The number of Preferred Securities to be sold by Aristeria International, Ltd. is increased by 14,000.
- The number of Preferred Securities to be sold by Aristeria Trading, LP is increased by 11,450.
- American Century Select Fund is added as a Selling Holder that owns 830,000 Preferred Securities.
- SCANA Corporation is added as a Selling Holder that owns 3,400 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 NOVEMBER 9, 2000
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