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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-17-158411
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
FILED AS OF DATE:		20170504
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20170504
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20170504

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FIRSTENERGY CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001031296
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		IRS NUMBER:				341843785
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			OH
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEFA14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-21011
		FILM NUMBER:		17813542

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		76 SOUTH MAIN ST
		CITY:			AKRON
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			44308-1890
		BUSINESS PHONE:		330-761-7837

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		76 SOUTH MAIN ST
		CITY:			AKRON
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			44308-1890
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Filed by the Registrant&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9746; </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="5"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:20pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FirstEnergy Corp.</B></P></TD></TR>
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its common stock.] </I></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:2pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>George M. Smart
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">May&nbsp;4, 2017 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[Dear Shareholder:] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In 2016, your Company achieved solid operational results, made strong progress on its regulated growth strategy and launched a plan to support
the exit from commodity-exposed generation. Together, these efforts support FirstEnergy&#146;s continued focus on creating stable, predictable and customer-service oriented growth that can benefit customers, employees and shareholders. As always,
your Board is committed to representing your interests as the Company pursues these goals. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">I also want to ensure that you have the
information you need about the important issues that will come before investors at FirstEnergy&#146;s 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be held May 16. A full explanation of these items can be found in the proxy statement that is available on
our website at <U>www.firstenergycorp.com/financialreports</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Your Board of Directors recommends that you vote &#147;FOR&#148; the
election of all nominees in Item 1 and the proposals in Items 2, 3 and 5 through 8 and &#147;Every Year&#148; for Item 4: </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Additional information on our corporate governance practices can be found in our proxy statement
in the &#147;Proxy Summary&nbsp;&#151;&nbsp;Corporate Governance Highlights&#148; (page iii) and &#147;Corporate Governance and Board of Directors Information&#148; (beginning on page 12) sections. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Named Executive Officer Compensation </B></P> <P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Your Board seeks your support to vote FOR our advisory vote on Named Executive Officer (NEO) compensation. After significant engagement efforts
with our top shareholders over the last several years, we have made substantial changes to our compensation plans and programs over the past four years, described more fully in our proxy statement beginning on page 53. We continue to benchmark our
plans and programs to support direct alignment between pay and performance and your Company&#146;s shareholders&#146; interests. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mr.&nbsp;Jones&#146; total compensation continued to remain below (15 percent below in 2016) the Blended Median (as defined in the proxy
statement) of our peer group of utility and general industry companies of other Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). As a result of the challenges we are currently facing in our Competitive Energy Services business and the fact that your CEO firmly
believes in aligning pay for performance with the interests of shareholders, he voluntarily requested a decrease in his incentive compensation opportunities for 2017. He requested and your Board agreed that his Short-Term Incentive Program target
opportunity in 2017 be decreased from 120&nbsp;percent to 115&nbsp;percent of his base salary and his LTIP target opportunity in 2017 be decreased from 600&nbsp;percent to 545&nbsp;percent of his base salary. This reduced his total incentive
opportunity to the levels he held in 2015 and resulted in a reduction of nearly $700,000 in target opportunities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">To further align
executive compensation with the interests of shareholders, there were no base salary increases and no increases in target opportunity levels as a percent of base salary for 2017, in the aggregate, for short-term and long-term incentive compensation,
for all Section&nbsp;16 insiders, including the NEOs. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Other significant changes we made to our executive compensation programs include,
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">We have a fully <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">at-risk</FONT> Long-Term Incentive Program (LTIP) to emphasize the importance for our NEOs to create shareholder value. We believe this is a key component to our <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pay-for-performance</FONT></FONT> philosophy. We are one of only a few of our peers whose LTIP is 100% at risk; in fact, the median benchmark indicates that our peers generally have a 52%
performance-based LTIP component. Due to our approach, close to 90&nbsp;percent of Mr.&nbsp;Jones&#146; 2016 overall target pay opportunity mix is performance-based; </TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">We use a representative and relevant peer group and the Compensation Committee completed a detailed review of your Company&#146;s peer group in 2016; </TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Your CEO waived participation in the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Change-in-Control</FONT></FONT> (CIC) plan beginning in September 2015 and effective this year we decreased the
benefit levels for certain executives covered by the CIC plan. Please refer to page 84 of the proxy statement for more details; </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">As discussed on page 55 of the proxy statement, we set more rigorous Operating Earnings Per Share (Operating EPS) target levels from 2016 to 2017 and are requiring higher levels of Operating EPS performance to achieve
higher level payouts for our short-term incentive program. The additional funding limits in 2017 better align NEO payouts to the creation of shareholder value by requiring strong financial performance before rewarding strong operational performance;
and, </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">We maintain robust stock ownership guidelines for all Section&nbsp;16 insiders, including the NEOs. In 2017, we increased the CEO guideline from 6X to 7X of base salary, which is above the industry and peer group
median. </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Your Board of Directors strongly believes that these changes, in conjunction with continued shareholder
outreach, are in the best interests of shareholders and I urge you to vote &#147;FOR&#148; our <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;Say-on-Pay&#148;</FONT></FONT> advisory vote on NEO compensation (Item&nbsp;3).
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Please vote today &#151; your vote is important. </B>Thank you for your ongoing support of FirstEnergy. </P>
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