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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001564590-19-017276
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
FILED AS OF DATE:		20190508
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190508
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20190508

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:		19807327

	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-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:3.42%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Over the past year, the Company took the necessary steps to complete its transition into a fully regulated utility. As a result, FirstEnergy entered 2019 with stronger credit ratings, a lower cost structure, a support organization that is aligned with its regulated business needs, and a solid platform for sustained growth. As a capstone to this transformation, your Board approved a new dividend policy that reflects our confidence in the Company&#8217;s long-term strategies. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:3.42%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">We also want to ensure that you have the information you need about the important issues that will come before investors at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. A full explanation of our position on each of these items is available in the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders which can be found at <font style="text-decoration:underline;">www.firstenergycorp.com/financialreports</font>. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:3.42%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">This is the fourth time in recent years your Board is attempting to secure shareholder support on the subjects of simple majority vote and proxy access, and the third time in recent years for the proposal related to a majority vote in uncontested director elections. As noted in each proposal, approval requires the affirmative vote of at least 80% of the voting power (outstanding) of the Company and your Board cannot unilaterally adopt the proposals because a shareholder vote is necessary under the Company&#8217;s governing documents. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:5.14%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Your Board seeks your support to vote &#8220;FOR&#8221; Item 3, our &#8220;Say-on-Pay&#8221; advisory vote on NEO compensation. After robust benchmarking and shareholder outreach, the Compensation Committee and your Board approved a number of key changes effective in 2018 and maintained the same general structure and design for 2019, to continue better alignment of executive pay with shareholder interests, including:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:5.14%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">In deciding how to vote on this proposal, we encourage you to read the Compensation Discussion and Analysis for a more detailed discussion of our executive compensation programs and practices, beginning on page 36 of the proxy statement. <font style="font-weight:bold;">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 &#8220;FOR&#8221; our &#8220;Say-on-Pay&#8221; advisory vote on NEO compensation (Item&#160;3).&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p>
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These statements include declarations regarding management's intents, beliefs and current expectations. These statements typically contain, but are not limited to, the terms &#8220;anticipate,&#8221; &#8220;potential,&#8221; &#8220;expect,&#8221; "forecast," "target," "will," "</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">intend," &#8220;believe,&#8221; "project," &#8220;estimate," "plan" and similar words. 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(FES), its subsidiaries, and FirstEnergy Nuclear O</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">perating Company (FENOC) (FES Bankruptcy) that could adversely affect us, our liquidity or results of operations, including, without limitation, that conditions to the FES Bankruptcy settlement agreement may not be met or that the FES Bankruptcy settlement</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> agreement may not be otherwise consummated, and if so, the potential for litigation and payment demands against us by FES or FENOC or their creditors; the ability to accomplish or realize anticipated benefits from strategic and financial goals, including,</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> but not limited to, our strategy to operate and grow as a fully regulated business, to execute our transmission and distribution investment plans, to continue to reduce costs through FE Tomorrow, which is the FirstEnergy initiative launched in late 2016 t</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">o identify our optimal organization structure and properly align corporate costs and systems to efficiently support FirstEnergy as a fully regulated company going forward, and other initiatives, and to improve our credit metrics, strengthen our balance she</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">et and grow earnings; legislative and regulatory developments at the federal and state levels, including, but not limited to, matters related to rates, compliance and enforcement activity; economic and weather conditions affecting future operating results,</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> such as significant weather events and other natural disasters, and associated regulatory events or actions; changes in assumptions regarding economic conditions within our territories, the reliability of our transmission and distribution system, or the a</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">vailability of capital or other resources supporting identified transmission and distribution investment opportunities; changes in customers' demand for power, including, but not limited to, the impact of state and federal energy efficiency and peak demand</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> reduction mandates; changes in national and regional economic conditions affecting us and/or our major industrial and commercial customers or others with which we do business; the risks associated with cyber-attacks and other disruptions to our informatio</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">n technology system that may compromise our operations, and data security breaches of sensitive data, intellectual property and proprietary or personally identifiable information; the ability to comply with applicable state and federal reliability standard</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">s and energy efficiency and peak demand reduction mandates; changes to federal and state environmental laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those related to climate change; changing market conditions affecting the measurement of certain lia</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">bilities and the value of assets held in our pension trusts and other trust funds, or causing us to make additional contributions sooner, or in amounts that are larger, than currently anticipated; the risks associated with the decommissioning of our retire</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">d and former nuclear facilities; the risks and uncertainties associated with litigation, arbitration, mediation and like proceedings; labor disruptions by our unionized workforce; changes to significant accounting policies; any changes in tax laws or regul</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">ations, including the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or adverse tax audit results or rulings; the ability to access the public securities and other capital and credit markets in accordance with our financial plans, the cost of such capital and overall condition of</font><font style="font-weight:normal;"> the capital and credit markets affecting us; actions that may be taken by credit rating agencies that could negatively affect either our access to or terms of financing or our financial condition and liquidity; and the risks and other factors discussed fr</font><font style="font-weight:normal;">om time to time in FirstEnergy&#8217;s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. 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