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Discontinued Operations	9 Months Ended
Discontinued Operations	Sep. 30, 2022
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]
DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS	10. DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS FES and FENOC Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing On March 31, 2018, the FES Debtors announced that, in order to facilitate an orderly financial restructuring, they filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code with the Bankruptcy Court. By eliminating a significant portion of its competitive generation fleet with the deconsolidation of the FES Debtors, FirstEnergy has concluded the FES Debtors meet the criteria for discontinued operations, as this represents a significant event in management’s strategic review to exit commodity-exposed generation and transition to a fully regulated company. Summarized Results of Discontinued Operations For both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, income related to discontinued operations was $47 million primarily related to income tax benefits from the final true-up to the worthless stock deduction and a final federal NOL allocation between the FES Debtors and FirstEnergy resulting from the filing of the 2020 FirstEnergy federal income tax return during the third quarter of 2021. Discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 is included within the Corp/Other segment. FirstEnergy’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows combine cash flows from discontinued operations with cash flows from continuing operations within each cash flow category. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, cash flows from operating activities includes income from discontinued operations of $47 million. There were no cash flows from investing or financing activities from discontinued operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. Income Taxes For U.S. federal income taxes, the FES Debtors were included in FirstEnergy’s consolidated tax return until emergence from bankruptcy on February 27, 2020. In conjunction with filing the 2020 consolidated federal income tax return during the third quarter of 2021, FirstEnergy computed a final federal NOL allocation between the FES Debtors and FirstEnergy consolidated that resulted in FirstEnergy recording an increase to the consolidated NOL carryforward of approximately $289 million ($61 million tax-effected).