Flip a light switch in New Jersey, West Virginia or Maryland, and the electricity may well have reached you over FirstEnergy's wires. Its utilities deliver power to homes and businesses in several states. Its transmission companies own the high-voltage lines that carry electricity over long distances, and one subsidiary still runs power plants. As a regulated monopoly (prices set by regulators, not by competition), it earns a return on the equipment regulators accept into customer prices.
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