Question: Which company has more direct relationships to end-users of their product, American Electric Power or Chesapeake Energy?
Context: Chesapeake Energy Arena, originally known as the Ford Center from 2002 to 2010 and Oklahoma City Arena until 2011, is an arena located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.  It opened in 2002 and since 2008 has served as the home venue of the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  Previously, Chesapeake Energy Arena was home to the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 2002 until the team folded in July 2009, and the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz of AF2 from 2004 to 2009 when the team moved to the Cox Convention Center.  In addition to its use as a sports venue, Chesapeake Energy Arena hosts concerts, family and social events, conventions, ice shows, and civic events.  The arena is owned by the city and operated by the SMG property management company and has 18,203 seats in the basketball configuration, 15,152 for hockey, and can seat up to 16,591 for concerts. Electrical energy is the energy newly derived from electric potential energy or kinetic energy.  When loosely used to describe energy absorbed or delivered by an electrical circuit (for example, one provided by an electric power utility) "electrical energy" talks about energy which has been converted "from" electric potential energy.  This energy is supplied by the combination of electric current and electric potential that is delivered by the circuit.  At the point that this electric potential energy has been converted to another type of energy, it ceases to be electric potential energy.  Thus, all electrical energy is potential energy before it is delivered to the end-use.  Once converted from potential energy, electrical energy can always be called another type of energy (heat, light, motion, etc.). Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing.  The method stores energy in the form of gravitational potential energy of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation.  Low-cost surplus off-peak electric power is typically used to run the pumps.  During periods of high electrical demand, the stored water is released through turbines to produce electric power.  Although the losses of the pumping process makes the plant a net consumer of energy overall, the system increases revenue by selling more electricity during periods of "peak demand", when electricity prices are highest. Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a wholesale electric generation and transmission cooperative based in North Dakota that provides electricity to 2.8 million customers in nine U.S. states.  The roots of the cooperative go back to 1960 when Leland Olds and ten power suppliers created Giant Power Cooperative.  Giant Power was first going to be a generation and transmission cooperative, but to keep electricity cheaper for rural customers, Basin Electric Power Cooperative was started in 1961.  Today, Basin Electric's power sources include coal, natural gas, the wind, waste heat, and nuclear.  The current CEO and General Manager is Paul Sukut.  A subsidiary of Basin Electric, Dakota Gasification Company, operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant, which captures and sequesters nearly 50% of its carbon dioxide emissions in a system developed during the Carter administration.  In 2005, the membership of Basin Electric passed a resolution requiring 10 percent of electricity demand to be provided by renewable forms of energy.  At the end of 2009, Basin Electric finished construction on a 77 turbine wind energy project. Chesapeake Energy Corporation is an American petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  The company was founded in 1989 by Aubrey McClendon and Tom L. Ward with only a $50,000 initial investment.  McClendon named the company due to his love of the Chesapeake Bay region.  Ward later left the company to found SandRidge Energy. The Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH) is a proposed 290 mile 765 kilovolt electric power transmission line designed to supply power from the Amos Substation located in Putnam County, West Virginia, to a proposed electrical substation to be constructed in Frederick County, Maryland.  If approved, the transmission line will be owned and operated by subsidiary companies of Allegheny Energy and the American Electric Power Company.  The route as currently proposed goes through 13 counties in West Virginia, three counties in Virginia, and Frederick County in Maryland.  The endpoint in Maryland would be a proposed electrical substation in Kemptown, MD, that would be in a residential area surrounded by about 1,300 houses.  The Kemptown substation would be the largest substation ever built by Allegheny Power. The John W. Turk Jr.  Coal Plant is a base load 600-megawatt coal-fired power station in Fulton, Arkansas, operated by the American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO).  It provides power to customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Anbaric Development Partners (Anbaric) is an American electric power transmission and microgrid development company located in Wakefield, Massachusetts.  The company develops smart grid, renewable energy, and large-scale electric transmission projects which use high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology for clients in the United States and internationally. American Electric Power (AEP) is a major investor-owned electric utility in the United States of America, delivering electricity to more than five million customers in 11 states. EPB, also known as the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, is an American electric power distribution and telecommunications company owned by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.  In 2010, EPB was the first company in the United States to offer 1 Gbit/s high-speed internet, over 200 times faster than the national average.  On October 15, 2015, Chattanooga implemented the world's first community-wide 10-gig Internet service, available to all homes and businesses in EPB's service area.
Answer: American Electric Power