The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following order: On January 22, 2013, FirstEnergy Generation, LLC (FE Genco) filed a revised market-based rate tariff to incorporate a name change. FirstEnergy Generation Corp. (FE Gencorp) was converted from a corporation to a domestic for-profit limited liability company, and the revised tariff reflects the name change from FE Gencorp to FE Genco. Pursuant to the authority delegated to the Director, Division of Electric Power Regulation - West, under 18 C.F.R. section 375.307, the company submittal filed in the referenced docket is accepted for filing, effective December 23, 2012, as requested.

FirstEnergy Corp. announced that Fred von Ahn, formerly vice president, North Fleet Operations, for its Firstenergy Generation Corp, has been promoted, effective January 1, 2013, to vice president, Central Fleet Operations. Von Ahn succeeds Frank Lubich, who has elected to retire after more than 35 years with the company. In 2009, he was named director, Bruce Mansfield Plant, in Shippingport, Pa., and was promoted to vice president, North Fleet Operations, in 2011.

A judge with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on December 17, 2012 signed off on a consent decree between environmental regulators and Firstenergy Generation Corp. that will force the closure of the 1,700-acre Little Blue Run coal ash impoundment, the facility of its kind in the U.S. FirstEnergy agreed to close the impoundment, which holds waste from the Bruce Mansfield power plant, and pay an $800,000 fine to Pennsylvania under the agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection reached in late July. The Pennsylvania DEP filed a complaint against FirstEnergy on July 27, alleging that contaminants from the solid waste at Little Blue Run, which straddles the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border, could move into groundwater and surface waters near the site. Under the agreement, FirstEnergy will stop disposing of coal waste slurry from the plant into Little Blue Run by the end of 2016, offer to replace water supplies to nearby homes at no cost to the owner, and monitor area water and air quality. FirstEnergy must submit to the Pennsylvania DEP a plan for closing the impoundment by March 31, 2013.