* completed through 2021

As FirstEnergy’s chosen program manager, our team participates in an ongoing cycle of identifying, developing, designing, executing and placing projects in service in accordance with a long-term portfolio of phased system improvements.

Our team of nearly 450 multidisciplinary professionals, including more than 250 design engineers, is typically engaged in portions of several thousand individual projects in various stages of completion. The team is a vital part of the framework bridging any gaps between planning, design, outage coordination, sourcing and execution to deliver meaningful projects to meet the technical and financial objectives of the program.

The Energizing the Future portfolio of projects is designed to:

• Upgrade system conditions by replacing equipment that is more than 40 years old or no longer supported by manufacturers.
• Enhance system performance through added communications and analytic infrastructure to harden the system and reduce outage minutes.
• Increase physical security at critical facilities by installing perimeter video, thermal imaging, virtual inspection and cut-proof fencing.
• Add operating flexibility for current customers and increase capacity to accommodate new customer load.
• Lower the company’s overall operations and maintenance costs.

We have helped FirstEnergy complete timely rebuilding, retrofitting or replacement of over 700 miles of transmission lines, hundreds of substations, more than 10,000 network devices and 1,000 miles of fiber-optic cable. Through collaboration and efficiencies achieved through economies of scale, the Energizing the Future portfolio is helping the utility maintain and strengthen its vital infrastructure in support of its communities and customers. This framework will continue to bolster FirstEnergy’s efforts for years to come.