FirstEnergy News

An environmental group plans to sue FirstEnergy over what it said was the pollution coming from a coal ash site that is in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

In her first trip to the state track meet, Heath's Katie White was so nervous that it was... Ohio's utility regulator will allow American Electric Power to at least temporarily continue assessing a charge that competitors think is unfair.

The residential rate for electricity will drop from 7.495 cents per kilowatt hour to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour, said spokesman Scott Surgeoner of FirstEnergy Corp., Penelec's parent company.

An environmentalist group announced Wednesday it will be filing a lawsuit against utility company FirstEnergy over alleged environmental violations at the 1,700-acre Little Blue Run coal ash impoundment, marking a major escalation in the group's attempts to close the site down.

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Reading Eagle FirstEnergy Corp. is moving 23 Reading -area jobs to Akron, Ohio, and Fairmount, W.Va., because the electric company is consolidating its transmission department.

The city has signed a two-year contract with AEP Retail Energy that will result in nearly $100,000 in savings, according to Finance Director Dave Malinowski.

Akron, OH, May 29, 2012 - FirstEnergy Corp. has announced plans to build a series of transmission projects to help enhance service reliability across its five-state service area.

American Electric Power has been airing television ads touting its commitment to "fair competition," pushing the impression of a company facing bullies trying to dominate the marketplace.

Analysts have been sending out their research reports to their clients again this week.

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According to FirstEnergy, nearly 1,800 customers are affected in Lorain County; 4,000 in Cuyahoga and 1,200 in Medina Counties.

Here is a list of four stocks that have recently caught the attention of brokers and that have been downgraded in the last week or so.

A proposed rate plan submitted by FirstEnergy to the Public Utilities Commission will result in higher than necessary rates for customers, according to the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, which has filed testimony with the PUCO in the case.

FirstEnergy Solutions won the contract, beating three other bidders, the city announced late Thursday.

FirstEnergy area manager Dan DeVille met with the Ashland County Commissioners Thursday to discuss the company's Outage Readiness and Restoration Plans.

May 24 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of FirstEnergy Corporation and its wholly-owned merchant generation subsidiaries FirstEnergy Solutions , Allegheny Energy Supply Co.

May 24 - Fitch has affirmed the long-term ratings of the regulated electric utility subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp.

The City of Oak Forest has selected a new energy supplier that officials said will save 43 percent off of ComEd's power rate.

The world watches as Europe's leaders bumble about in Brussels, while FirstEnergy pours cold water on any hopes for a natural gas revival in the near-term When he was younger, Max Fawcett wanted to make a mint in the markets.