FirstEnergy to Invest More than $1.5 Billion in T&D Projects in 2015

SUGAR LAND--March 27, 2015--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--FirstEnergy Corporation (NYSE:FE) (Akron, Ohio) plans to invest more than $1.5 billion in transmission and distribution (T&D) projects across its 10 operating utilities in 2015. These investments will be part of the company's previously announced, multi-billion-dollar T&D capital program, "Energizing the Future," which began in 2012 and is scheduled to end around 2017. FirstEnergy has invested about $4.2 billion in its capital program since 2012, FirstEnergy spokesman Mark Durbin told Industrial Info. And that number is poised to grow even further. Within this article: Transmission and distribution plans by FirstEnergy Corporation.