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FirstEnergy News Archives

FirstEnergy News Archives for October 2009

Oct 30, 2009 | OfficialWire

FirstEnergy Capital Corp. - Clean Technology - Advisory Profile

FirstEnergy Capital Corp. - Clean Technology - Advisory Profile Summary FirstEnergy Capital Corp.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

Small Times

BPLG Transforms With SGIG Wins

BPL Global , Ltd. , a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy efficiency and reliability, announce that BPLG and our strategic partners have collaborated with multiple electric utilities awarded Smart Grid Investment Grants from the DOE as part of the ARRA funding announcements made by President Obama earlier ...

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West Side Sun

E Group consultants recommend Parma officials sign six-year contract...

For nine years an Akron consulting firm has advised the city where to buy electricity for its residents, smaller businesses and municipal buildings.

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Related Topix: Energy, Allegheny Energy

Wed Oct 28, 2009

WTOL-TV Toledo

Ohio light bulb brouhaha subject of hearing

Ohio regulators will ask a power company to defend its plan to pay for an energy-efficient light bulb program by charging customers for the bulbs as well as any energy savings.

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Related Topix: Ohio, Energy

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Local Breaking News

FirstEnergy earnings fall

The deep recession and mild weather took a major toll on FirstEnergy Corp.'s third-quarter finances.

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WKSU-FM Kent

FirstEnergy to defend light bulb program later this month

When news breaks - anywhere, anytime - BBC is there. Here! Now! Imperative: not to be avoided: necessary.

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Related Topix: Energy, Classical, Berlin Philharmonic, Folk, The Baltimore Consort, Symphony, Arts

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Triple Pundit

Ohio Utility Ship Customers Energy-Efficient Bulbs, Plus a Huge Bill

Call it greening run amok. Or, more likely, poor planning combined with petty penny pinching by a large corporation.

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Morning Journal

Electric aggregate savings availabl.....

Residents in the 12 townships served by Ohio Edison may be given the option of participating in a program that would save them $37 annually on their electric bills, while providing their trustees with a $50,000 bonus from the electric company.

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Related Topix: Energy, Columbiana County, OH

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Business

FirstEnergy officials say they'll be open to ideas at hearing...

FirstEnergy will go to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio next week to plead its case for distribution of nearly 4 million energy-efficient light bulbs to the electric utility's customers.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

National Public Radio

Ohio Utility Wants Customers To Pay To Conserve

FirstEnergy Corp., an Ohio energy utility, is accused of overcharging customers to compensate for its lost revenue when the customers saved energy with energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs.

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Related Topix: Energy, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Ted Strickland, Democrat, US News

Fri Oct 23, 2009

West Side Sun

Parma would score $1 million grant if it signs FirstEnergy Solutions contract

The city may extend its three-year agreement to buy electricity from FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.

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Related Topix: Energy, Cleveland Metro, Barberton, OH

Thu Oct 22, 2009

NPR

Ohio Utility Wants Customers To Pay To Conserve

FirstEnergy Corp., an Ohio energy utility, is accused of overcharging customers to compensate for their lost revenue when the customers saved energy with new energy-saving light bulbs.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

FirstEnergy to Webcast Third Quarter Earnings Teleconference

In conjunction with the release of FirstEnergy Corp.'s 2009 third quarter results on October 27, the company is inviting investors, customers and other interested parties to listen to a live Webcast of its teleconference for financial analysts at 1 p.m. EDT that day.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities File a Proposal To Secure Power Supply for Customers Beginning June 2011

FirstEnergy Corp.'s Ohio electric utility companies - Ohio Edison, The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company and Toledo Edison - today filed an application for a Market Rate Offer to provide electric generation service to retail customers who choose not to shop with alternative suppliers.

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Local News

Electricity proposal could cut Stark bills

CANTON: Ohio Edison's residential customers in Stark County townships would save 6 percent of a portion of their bills under a proposal presented to county commissioners Wednesday.

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

SNL Financial

Hires and fires through Oct. 15

SNL Energy presents a weekly rundown of recent executive management, board and regulatory changes in the energy industry.

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Related Topix: Energy, CH Energy Group, Marketing, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Nipsco Industries

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Electric Energy Online

PennFuture Signs Federal Consent Decree with FirstEnergy to End Air Pollution from Bruce Mansfield Power Plant

Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future announced on October 15 that it had reached a settlement with FirstEnergy for air pollution violations at its Bruce Mansfield plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Energy, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Beaver County, PA

Sat Oct 17, 2009

The Plain Dealer

FirstEnergy seeks OK to replace some power lines to make them more efficient

FirstEnergy Corp. has asked state regulators to approve the replacement of equipment and even some power lines throughout its territory in order to make its system more efficient.

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Related Topix: Energy, Ohio

Fri Oct 16, 2009

R & D

FirstEnergy settles Shippingport pollution suit

FirstEnergy Corp. has agreed to continue improving pollution controls and monitoring to settle a federal lawsuit concerning a coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Energy, Shippingport, PA

PUCO Media Release Rss Feed

PUCO schedules oral arguments on FirstEnergy compact fluorescent light bulb program

Please Note: You are viewing the non-styled version of www.PUCO.ohio.gov. Either your browser does not support Cascading Style Sheets or it is disabled.

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Related Topix: Energy, Columbus, OH

Thu Oct 15, 2009

The Victoria Star

Sprott Resource announces $100M equity financing by subsidiary Orion Oil & Gas

Sprott Resource Corp. announced Thursday that a syndicate co-led by Cormark, FirstEnergy and TD Securities will use its best efforts to arrange a $100-million equity offering by Orion Oil & Gas, a Sprott subsidiary that is working on a reverse takeover of Wintraysan Capital Corp.

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Related Topix: Waste Management, Environmental, Energy

Aurora Advocate

Light bulb plan lambasted

FirstEnergy's energy-saving idea to deliver two compact fluorescent light bulbs to its customers didn't sit well with the city's safety/service/utlities committee or Council.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

WKSU-FM Kent

FirstEnergy turns off lightbulb program

A weekly excursion into this country's rich and diverse musical styles and traditions, American Routes also introduces the audience to the music makers with interviews and profiles of featured artists.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

Crain's Cleveland Business

FirstEnergy announces promotions

FirstEnergy Corp. today named a vice president of product and business development for FirstEnergy Solutions, a unit that sells electricity to industrial customers.

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Mon Oct 12, 2009

The BIG One - WTAM 1100

Light up? Pay up

You have likely heard the ads in which FirstEnergy says each and every one of its residential and small business customers is receiving two compact fluorescent light bulbs for free.

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The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Beaver Valley Power Station Refueling Under Way

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company , a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. , announced its Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 2, located in Shippingport, Pa., shut down earlier today for scheduled refueling and maintenance work.

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Related Topix: Energy, Nuclear Energy, Shippingport, PA

Sun Oct 11, 2009

The Plain Dealer

FirstEnergy Corp. unsure of next step after light bulb uproar

Don't look for these bulbs on your doorstep yet. Ohio regulators Wednesday postponed FirstEnergy's Corp.'s plans to distribute energy-efficient bulbs to customers and then charge for them.

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Related Topix: Energy, Ohio, Public Relations, Marketing, Cleveland, OH

The Plain Dealer

Sunday's numbers: a look at efforts to get people to use high-efficiency light bulbs

Compact fluorescent light bulbs are used in 11 percent of the screw-based residential sockets nationally.

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Sat Oct 10, 2009

WAKS-FM Independence

FirstEnergy working to meet energy-savings requirements.

You have likely heard the ads in which FirstEnergy says each and every one of its residential and small business customers is receiving two compact fluorescent light bulbs for free.

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Institutional Investor

FirstEnergy Detects Ebbing Demand In Issuance

Pennsylvania Electric , a unit of FirstEnergy , issued a two-part, $500 million bond offering Monday and saw signs of easing investor demand.

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Related Topix: Energy, Akron Metro, Cleveland Metro, Akron, OH, Financial Markets

Cleveland.com

Upset about FirstEnergy's pricey, hand-delivered light bulbs?

There was a time when you and I could be trusted to change a light bulb. In those days, powerful people who made weighty decisions understood that if a light bulb burned out, even the dimmest of us common folk would know enough to remove it from its socket, choose a suitable replacement and install it.

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Related Topix: Energy, Global Warming

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Toledo Blade

FirstEnergy delays efficient-light idea

A plan by FirstEnergy Corp. to distribute energy-efficient light bulbs and place the cost on customers' bills has been put on hold - for now.

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Related Topix: Energy, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, University of Toledo, Marketing, Toledo, OH

Thu Oct 08, 2009

The Plain Dealer

Light bulb program has some customers seeing red

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A plan by a Midwest utility to distribute energy-efficient light bulbs to customers backfired when it was learned that the recipients would not only have to pay for the bulbs, but also pay the utility for the electricity they wouldn't be using.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, Ohio, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Energy

Tribune-Chronicle

Bulb - giveaway' gets dim reception

State officials on Wednesday distanced themselves from an unpopular power-savings initiative FirstEnergy is taking under an Ohio law forcing utilities to use less energy.

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Related Topix: Energy, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Youngstown Metro, US Governors, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy)

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Recordpub.com

An energy-saving idea: FirstEnergy giving away fluorescent bulbs in Portage

Need an idea? Carry around a light bulb. FirstEnergy has a energy-saving idea - and a light bulb to go with it.

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The Corner

Brave New Light Bulbs -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Ummm : Headline: FirstEnergy to give away 3.75 million low-energy light bulbs But by "give away," they don't mean give away.

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Tue Oct 06, 2009

The Plain Dealer

Rep. Dennis Kucinich seeks federal investigation of FirstEnergy bulb program

Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate FirstEnergy Corp.'s plans to distribute high-efficiency light bulbs to its residential customers and bill them more than $21 over three years for bulbs that cost the utility $7. Kucinich's request is in response to an article in Tuesday's Plain Dealer ...

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Related Topix: Energy, Dennis Kucinich, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Cleveland Metro, Cleveland, OH

Mon Oct 05, 2009

NewsNet5

FirstEnergy Giving 4 Million Low-Energy Bulbs To Customers

FirstEnergy Corp. plans to provide nearly 4 million low-energy light bulbs to its residential electricity customers in Ohio.

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R & D

FirstEnergy Ohio residential customers get bulbs

FirstEnergy Corp. plans to provide nearly 4 million low-energy light bulbs to its residential electricity customers in Ohio.

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Related Topix: Energy, Laptops/Notebooks

Sun Oct 04, 2009

Bloomberg

RRI, Mirant May Be Hurt the Most by Carbon-Emissions Rules, Bernstein Says

RRI Energy Inc. , Mirant Corp. and FirstEnergy Corp. are among the U.S. power generators that will probably be hit hardest by the Environmental Protection Agencya s proposed greenhouse-gas regulations, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Dynegy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Sat Oct 03, 2009

Weirton Daily Times

Commission approves committee engin.....

The Hancock County Commission has approved the appointment of an engineer to the county's Abandoned Building Ordinance Committee.

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Fri Oct 02, 2009

News-Messenger

FirstEnergy building to beat construction schedule

AKRON -- FirstEnergy Solutions, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., expects to complete construction on the Fremont Energy Center by the end of 2010 -- sooner than expected.

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Related Topix: Energy, Fremont, OH, Sandusky County, OH

Clover Herald

2 Duke Energy wind projects now running

Power company Duke Energy said Thursday that wind power projects in Wyoming and Pennsylvania are now up and running.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Cheyenne, WY, Cheyenne Metro

Thu Oct 01, 2009

Charlotte Business Journal

Duke wind-power projects on line

Duke Energy Corp. wind-power projects in Pennsylvania and Wyoming have started to generate electricity.

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Related Topix: Duke Energy, Energy, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Pennsylvania, Wyoming Government, Wyoming

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