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FirstEnergy Corp. issued two public documents, which are attached as Exhibits
99.1 and 99.2 hereto and incorporated by reference. FirstEnergy's Press Release
and Consolidated Report to the Financial Community contain non-GAAP* financial
measures. Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation G, FirstEnergy has provided
quantitative reconciliations within the Press Release and Consolidated Report to
the Financial Community of the non-GAAP* financial measures to the most directly
comparable GAAP financial measures.</font></div>
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and Consolidated Report to the Financial Community include normalized earnings
per share, which is not calculated in accordance with GAAP because it excludes
the impact of "special items." Special items reflect the impact on earnings of
events that are not routine or that may be related to discontinued businesses.
Management believes presenting normalized earnings calculated in this manner
provides useful information to investors in evaluating the ongoing results of
FirstEnergy's businesses and assists investors in comparing FirstEnergy&#8217;s
operating performance to the operating performance of other companies in the
energy sector. Management believes presenting this non-GAAP* measure provides
useful information to investors in assessing FirstEnergy's normalized operating
performance. FirstEnergy's management frequently references this non-GAAP*
financial measure in its decision-making, using it to facilitate historical and
ongoing performance comparisons as well as comparisons to the performance of
peer companies.</font></div>
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Financial Community should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute
for, the most directly comparable financial measure prepared in accordance with
GAAP.&#160;Also, the non-GAAP* financial measure may not be comparable to
similarly titled measures used by other entities.<a name="id_0_5" /><a name="id_0_6" /><a name="part_1_2_2" /><a name="item_1_47_1" /></font></div>
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main8_k.htm
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D. C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date
of Report (Date of earliest event reported) May 5, 2009
Commission
Registrant;
      State of Incorporation;
I.R.S.
      Employer
File
      Number
Address;
      and Telephone Number
Identification
      No.
333-21011
FIRSTENERGY
      CORP.
34-1843785
(An
      Ohio Corporation)
76
      South Main Street
Akron,
      OH 44308
Telephone (800)736
-
3402
Check
the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions (see General Instruction A.2.):
[ ]
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230.425)
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240.14a-12)
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(17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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(17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item
2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition
On May 5, 2009,
FirstEnergy Corp. issued two public documents, which are attached as Exhibits
99.1 and 99.2 hereto and incorporated by reference. FirstEnergy's Press Release
and Consolidated Report to the Financial Community contain non-GAAP* financial
measures. Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation G, FirstEnergy has provided
quantitative reconciliations within the Press Release and Consolidated Report to
the Financial Community of the non-GAAP* financial measures to the most directly
comparable GAAP financial measures.
The Press Release
and Consolidated Report to the Financial Community include normalized earnings
per share, which is not calculated in accordance with GAAP because it excludes
the impact of "special items." Special items reflect the impact on earnings of
events that are not routine or that may be related to discontinued businesses.
Management believes presenting normalized earnings calculated in this manner
provides useful information to investors in evaluating the ongoing results of
FirstEnergy's businesses and assists investors in comparing FirstEnergy's
operating performance to the operating performance of other companies in the
energy sector. Management believes presenting this non-GAAP* measure provides
useful information to investors in assessing FirstEnergy's normalized operating
performance. FirstEnergy's management frequently references this non-GAAP*
financial measure in its decision-making, using it to facilitate historical and
ongoing performance comparisons as well as comparisons to the performance of
peer companies.
The non-GAAP*
information presented in the Press Release and Consolidated Report to the
Financial Community should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute
for, the most directly comparable financial measure prepared in accordance with
GAAP. Also, the non-GAAP* financial measure may not be comparable to
similarly titled measures used by other entities.
Item
9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d)
Exhibits.
Exhibit
      No.
Description
99.1
Press Release
      issued by FirstEnergy Corp., dated May 5, 2009
99.2
Consolidated
      Report to the Financial Community, dated May 5,
  2009
*This Form 8-K
contains non-GAAP financial measures. Generally, a non-GAAP financial measure is
a numerical measure of a company's historical or future financial performance,
financial position, or cash flows that either excludes or includes amounts, or
is subject to adjustment that has the effect of excluding or including amounts,
that are not normally excluded or included in the most directly comparable
measure calculated and presented in accordance with accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP.
2
Forward-Looking
Statements:
This Form 8-K includes forward-looking statements based
on information currently available to management. Such statements are subject to
certain risks and uncertainties. These statements include declarations regarding
management's intents, beliefs and current expectations. These statements
typically contain, but are not limited to, the terms "anticipate," "potential,"
"expect," "believe," "estimate" and similar words. Forward-looking statements
involve estimates, assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be
materially different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual results may
differ materially due to the speed and nature of increased competition in the
electric utility industry and legislative and regulatory changes affecting how
generation rates will be determined following the expiration of existing rate
plans in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the impact of the PUCO's regulatory process on
the Ohio Companies associated with the distribution rate case or implementing
the recently-approved ESP, including the outcome of any competitive generation
procurement process in Ohio, economic or weather conditions affecting future
sales and margins, changes in markets for energy services, changing energy and
commodity market prices and availability, replacement power costs being higher
than anticipated or inadequately hedged, the continued ability of FirstEnergy's
regulated utilities to collect transition and other charges or to recover
increased transmission costs, maintenance costs being higher than anticipated,
other legislative and regulatory changes, revised environmental requirements,
including possible greenhouse gas emission regulations, the potential impacts of
the U.S. Court of Appeals' July 11, 2008 decision requiring revisions to the
CAIR rules and the scope of any laws, rules or regulations that may ultimately
take their place, the uncertainty of the timing and amounts of the capital
expenditures needed to, among other things, implement the AQC Plan (including
that such amounts could be higher than anticipated or that certain generating
units may need to be shut down) or levels of emission reductions related to the
Consent Decree resolving the NSR litigation or other potential regulatory
initiatives, adverse regulatory or legal decisions and outcomes (including, but
not limited to, the revocation of necessary licenses or operating permits and
oversight) by the NRC (including, but not limited to, the Demand for Information
issued to FENOC on May 14, 2007), Met-Ed's and Penelec's transmission service
charge filings with the PPUC, the continuing availability of generating units
and their ability to operate at or near full capacity, the ability to comply
with applicable state and federal reliability standards, the ability to
accomplish or realize anticipated benefits from strategic goals (including
employee workforce initiatives), the ability to improve electric commodity
margins and to experience growth in the distribution business, the changing
market conditions that could affect the value of assets held in FirstEnergy's
nuclear decommissioning trusts, pension trusts and other trust funds, and cause
it to make additional contributions sooner, or in an amount that is larger than
currently anticipated, the ability to access the public securities and other
capital and credit markets in accordance with FirstEnergy's financing plan and
the cost of such capital, changes in general economic conditions affecting the
Registrant, the state of the capital and credit markets affecting the
Registrant, interest rates and any actions taken by credit rating agencies that
could negatively affect FirstEnergy's access to financing or its costs and
increase requirements to post additional collateral to support outstanding
commodity positions, LOCs and other financial guarantees, the continuing decline
of the national and regional economy and its impact on FirstEnergy's major
industrial and commercial customers, issues concerning the soundness of
financial institutions and counterparties with which FirstEnergy does business,
and the risks and other factors discussed from time to time in the Registrant's
SEC filings, and other similar factors. The foregoing review of factors should
not be construed as exhaustive. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is
not possible for management to predict all such factors, nor assess the impact
of any such factor on FirstEnergy's business or the extent to which any factor,
or combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from those
contained in any forward-looking statements. The Registrant expressly disclaims
any current intention to update any forward-looking statements contained herein
as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
3
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto
authorized.
May 5,
2009
FIRSTENERGY
      CORP.
Registrant
By:
/s/ Harvey L. Wagner
Harvey L.
      Wagner
Vice
      President, Controller and
Chief
      Accounting Officer
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