FirstEnergy Corp. (FE)

Electric utility with a 4,618-person service company. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 4 of the 27 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

FirstEnergy's table counts 11,186 employees at December 31, 2025, all in the United States, 6,568 at its seven utility subsidiaries and 4,618 at FirstEnergy Service Company, which rule 6 reads at management of companies (a).

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 24% now, 42% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 54% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 54% desk work, 18% people work and 28% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 44% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

11,186 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states that all 11,186 employees were located in the United States.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, FirstEnergy had 11,186 employees, all of whom were located in the United States as follows: FESC 4,618; CEI 752; FE PA 1,916; JCP&L 1,165; MP 968; OE 1,013; PE 473; TE 281; Total 11,186.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 4,887 bargaining unit employees (44%) represented by the IBEW, the Utility Workers Union of America and the Office and Professional Employees International Union under 15 collective bargaining agreements; the count fell from 12,294 a year earlier, the filing naming filling only critical positions among its cost measures.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• The Southern Company (SO, 29,800 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• PG&E Corporation (PCG, 29,010 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
• Duke Energy Corporation (DUK, 26,441 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• Exelon Corporation (EXC, 20,571 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP, 17,581 employees)24% now, 50% by 2028
• NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, 17,400 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG, 16,702 employees)19% now, 32% by 2028
• Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED, 15,407 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the advanced technology it deploys to reduce costs, and AI data centers as large loads whose interconnection to the transmission system FERC and the Energy Secretary are considering.

• “FirstEnergy leverages opportunities to reduce costs - such as filling only critical positions, implementing our facility optimization plans, deploying advanced technology, including but not limited to artificial intelligence, and exploring other additional, sustainable opportunities, such as reducing contractor spend.”
• “Factors that may affect our revenue growth may include: (1) FERC's timely approval of rates to recover such investments; (2) whether investments are included in PJM's RTEP; (3) FERC's evolving policies with respect to incentive rates for transmission investment assets, the calculation of the base ROE component of transmission rates, and the interconnection of AI data centers and transmission ne...”
• “Secretary of Energy, is also considering whether to develop regulations intended to speed interconnection of AI data centers and "hybrid" data center/electric generation facilities (collectively, "large loads") to the transmission system.”
• “Cybersecurity threats, including those that exploit advances in technologies such as artificial intelligence, continue to grow in frequency and sophistication, and the security controls we implement may not fully prevent or detect all such threats or incidents.”
• “Emerging artificial intelligence technologies may be used to develop new hacking tools, obscure malicious activities, exploit vulnerabilities, and increase the difficulty of detecting threats.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20241median 4
• Fiscal 20256median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The collector's pick was the service company's 4,618; the table's total is 11,186 (rule 2).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001031296-26-000046, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.