FirstEnergy's Ohio Utilities Welcome New Line and Substation Graduates from Training Program
AKRON, Ohio, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) Ohio subsidiaries Ohio Edison, The Illuminating Company and Toledo Edison have hired a combined 46 graduates of Power Systems Institute (PSI), a two-year educational program that helps prepare the next generation of line and substation workers for FirstEnergy's 10 electric companies. This will be one of the last graduating classes of PSI as the company transitions to a new, paid apprentice program to best meet the needs of future line and substation personnel.
- This will be one of the last graduating classes of PSI as the company transitions to a new, paid apprentice program to best meet the needs of future line and substation personnel.
- The new employees include 33 line workers and 13 substation electricians who completed the PSI training program in partnership with Stark State College in North Canton, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) in Cleveland and Owens Community College in Perrysburg, earning their associate of applied science degree in Electric Utility Technology.
- Since the program's inception, FirstEnergy has hired more than 2,800 line and substation personnel who completed PSI programs in New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia.
- Ohio Edison serves more than one million customers across 34 Ohio counties.