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When you flip a light switch, you expect a light to turn on. Most people don’t give much thought to the operations or men and women responsible for their service until the lights go out during a power outage. Today, April 18, is National Line Worker Appreciation Day, and we hope you join us in recognizing…

Ernie Maley Set to Retire August 1 Among the areas of responsibility John will assume are those of Ernie Maley, Vice President and CIO, who is retiring August 1 after more than two decades with FirstEnergy. Ernie joined the company in 2002 as director, Infrastructure Services for IT, and was promoted to a number of leadership positions…

Our Ohio electric companies – Ohio Edison, The Illuminating Company and Toledo Edison – have reached a settlement on our Grid Modernization (Grid Mod) II plan that will expand the deployment of smart meters to an additional 1.4 million customers in Ohio. If approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), the four-year, $421…

We recently received the following letter of appreciation from a Potomac Edison customer expressing her thanks to two West Virginia Operations employees – Kenneth Nails, Lead Line Worker, and Parker Wilson, Line Worker B – who went the extra mile to restore her service following severe weather. Early in the morning, two trees fell onto power lines…

We are conducting tree trimming and other vegetation management work in portions of our Mon Power and Potomac Edison service areas as part of our efforts to help enhance electric service reliability in West Virginia. This year’s $84.7 million tree-trimming program will help keep power flowing to customers by helping to prevent tree-related outages, such…

FirstEnergy Pennsylvania (FE PA), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) doing business as Met-Ed, Penn Power, Penelec and West Penn Power, will request today a review of its base electric rates by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC). The proposed rate adjustment builds on service reliability enhancements made in recent years by upgrading additional…

Check out the list of April’s service anniversaries​.​​​​