FirstEnergy Power Restoration Update

AKRON, Ohio, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) utilities have made significant progress restoring power following Friday's windstorm, with most customers now back in service and crews continuing work for those still affected. At the same time, crews are addressing new outages resulting from winds and thunderstorms that moved through the region yesterday afternoon and overnight, with the greatest impacts in eastern Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey.

Power has been restored to more than 97% of the nearly 1.1 million FirstEnergy customers affected by storms over the last few days. About 35,400 customers remain without service. A contingent of more than 10,000 FirstEnergy employees, contractors and outside resources are supporting around the clock restoration efforts.

Estimated restoration times (ETRs) have been set for most outages, which can be viewed on firstenergycorp.com/outages or by logging onto individual accounts. Global ETRs – which reflect when nearly all customers in an area are expected to have power restored – will be set for the Met-Ed area of Pennsylvania, Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) in New Jersey and Mon Power in West Virginia later today. Many customers will have power restored sooner than the global ETR.

Updates by electric company as of 2p.m.:

Customers who are without power can call 1-888-LIGHTSS (1-888-544-4877), text OUT to 544487 or report online at firstenergycorp.com/outages.

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SOURCE FirstEnergy Corp.