FirstEnergy

FirstEnergy is an investor-owned monopoly utility company that serves over 6 millions customers in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions through its subsidiaries Ohio Edison, Illuminating Company, Toledo Edison, Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, West Penn Power, Jersey City Power & Light, Mon Power, and Potomac Edison. FirstEnergy is the center of ongoing state and federal criminal investigations in Ohio, in which the utility has admitted that it secretly paid millions of dollars in bribes to the former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives and chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

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Six Ohio utilities contributed $2 million to DGA and RGA as Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy campaigned on lowering energy bills 
May 18, 2026
Six of Ohio’s largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities contributed more than $2 million to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association since January of last year, in an election cycle where Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton have both campaigned on lowering energy bills for Ohioans if elected as governor.  The six...
Pile of cash

PUCO stops FirstEnergy from making Ohio customers pay $108 million for a corporate accounting foul-up flagged by regulatory audits 
November 7, 2025
November 20, 2024 update: FirstEnergy’s Ohio utilities will not be allowed to recover $108 million in misclassified corporate overhead costs flagged repeatedly in regulatory audits through the new rates approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in an order yesterday.  A spokesperson for the PUCO confirmed that the order affirmed an auditor’s recommendation to...
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