Consumers' lawyer seeks refunds as FirstEnergy ratings fall

WFMJ: The lawyer for FirstEnergy’s 1.8 million residential electric customers in Ohio stepped in Wednesday to try to assure they get refunds should state legislators or the courts halt the charges the utility giant was expecting as part of a now-tainted nuclear bailout bill.

Ohio Consumers’ Counsel Bruce Weston made his request regarding the House Bill 6 charges in a filing with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. He said he doesn’t want to see a “travesty of justice” similar to that of 2016, when a half-billion in charges to FirstEnergy ratepayers were found inappropriate and overturned by the Ohio Supreme Court — but no refund was delivered to consumers.

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