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FirstEnergy subsidiaries Potomac Edison and MAIT have been awarded transmission projects worth more than $800 million.

FirstEnergy’s subsidiary West Penn Power will invest $147 M for distribution system upgrades.

FirstEnergy will upgrade transmission equipment in USA’s Northeast Ohio using helicopters.

American Transmission Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has completed a 21 km (13 mi) upgrade to a HV transmission line in in eastern Ohio.

USA, Virginia: Potomac Edison, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has completed an upgrade to the electrical system serving Grant County, West Virginia.

FirstEnergy’s American Transmission Systems, Inc. (ATSI), on 16 April 16 filed with the Ohio Power Siting Board an application.

USA, Ohio: Project to rebuild and modernise existing 138 kV power line is to enhance service reliability.

A $22 million construction project by FirstEnergy aims to make power more reliable in the southern reaches of Lorain County.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy is undertaking more than $600 million in transmission projects through 2018 in the company’s Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec) and Metropolitan Edison (Met-Ed) service areas.

USA, Maryland: FirstEnergy is continuing work this summer and throughout the remainder of 2016 on distribution and transmission infrastructure projects totalling approximately $128 million in Potomac Edison’s service area in western Maryland and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy is expanding a substation in Wampum, Pennsylvania to accommodate new high-voltage electrical equipment designed to reinforce the regional electric system and enhance service reliability.

USA, West Virginia: FirstEnergy is building a new $63 million substation to help support the oil and gas industry, but also to improve service for customers in three counties in West Virginia.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy has transported a 300-ton power transformer from the Ohio Commerce Center on Route 45 to a power substation on Highland Avenue in Lordstown, Ohio.

USA, Ohio: The Illuminating Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., is completing construction of a new approximately $3 million substation in Avon to help enhance customer service reliability and meet the future demand for electricity in the area.

USA, Pennsylvania: FirstEnergy Corp. has nearly completed construction of a new substation in Elk County, Pennsylvania, that will include voltage-regulating equipment designed to reinforce the electric system and enhance service reliability for West Penn Power and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec) utility customers.

USA, Maryland: FirstEnergy Corp. is expanding a transmission substation in Frederick, Maryland, to accommodate new voltage-regulating equipment designed to help reinforce the electric system, support load growth and enhance service reliability in Potomac Edison’s service area.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy is building a $1.2 million substation in Brunswick, Ohio, that will support future growth and reduce outages, the company says.

USA, New Jersey: A FirstEnergy Company Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) plans to spend a total of $267 million in 2015 on electrical and transmission system enhancement projects in its New Jersey service area.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy Corp. is looking to invest $35 million over the next two years on several transmission and substation projects in order to improve electrical service around Marcellus shale gas development.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy has made an investment of $690 million in the Ohio Edison service area on power transmission and distribution infrastructure, including building new transmission lines, new substations, and installing new power transformers.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy transported very large transformers from a rail yard in Toronto to a site north of the city where the new Toronto substation is under construction.

USA, Ohio: A giant substation is currently under construction in the northern part of Toronto, Jefferson County under FirstEnergy’s initiative.

USA, Ohio: Several FirstEnergy employees have recently been recognised with Leadership and Technology Transfer awards by The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an independent, nonprofit organisation for energy and environmental research.