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  Dominion East Ohio reminds customers of available company payment plans and government energy assistance programs designed to help them maintain winter natural gas service.…

  The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) today approved FirstEnergy’s three-year energy efficiency and peak demand reduction portfolio plan. FirstEnergy designed the plan to reduce electric consumption among customers and meet annual energy efficiency benchmarks established for 2010 to 2012. “The Commission approved FirstEnergy’s plan on the grounds that the projected savings achieved through […]

Regulators have ordered FirstEnergy Corp. to restore steeply discounted rates for all-electric homes, eliminated last year after decades of promoting electric heating. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio took the unprecedented action Wednesday after weeks of protests from homeowners and an order from Gov. Ted Strickland. More than 100,000 families that heat with electricity have […]

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich this morning launched an investigation into FirstEnergy Corp.’s decision to eliminate its deep discounts for all-electric homes after promoting the discounts for decades. And about the same hour, Ohio Sens. Tim Grendell and Tom Patton filed a bill with the Senate that would go over the heads of state regulators and […]