Barberton councilman wants FirstEnergy to credit residents $100 for outages

Customer-first focus needed as PUCO probes FirstEnergy power outages in Lakewood, elsewhere: editorial

The good news is that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has begun an investigation into whether repeated FirstEnergy power outages in Lakewood, the far west side of Cleveland, Barberton and elsewhere reflect preventable reliability failings or are just the happenstance of bad weather, osprey nests and trees falling from non-FirstEnergy property, as the Akron utility contends.

Barberton councilman wants FirstEnergy to credit residents $100 for outages

BARBERTON, Ohio (WJW) - Just since May, residents in Barberton believe the power outages have been more frequent and longer than they have ever been. "We've had well over a dozen outages between May and June alone. We haven't had that many power outages on the south side in all of my years there combined," said Councilman at-large Thomas Bebe Heitic. "This past year, we have had a lot of them," said George Garman, a resident of the New Haven dev…