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UK-based Centrica plc is rounding up more than 850,000 Texas customers after agreeing to purchase two retail electric providers (REPs) of American Electric Power (AEP). The deal, which includes power supply and service agreements, adds customers of Corpus Christi-based CPL Retail Energy and WTU Retail Energy, based in Abilene. When the transaction is completed, Centrica will have nearly 4.5 million customers in Canada and the United States, making it the largest deregulated energy services company in North America.