For the last year, News 5 has been Following Through as many Northeast Ohioans have been left in the dark, and now FirstEnergy is requesting the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to allow more frequent and longer outages.
FirstEnergy asks regulators for permission for longer power outages
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Cheyenne Burke, a longtime Lakewood resident, has been telling us for the last year how concerning the power outages have become.
“It was like something we came to expect. It was like a seasonal thing, like, ‘Oh, it happens every season, we just gotta get used to it.’ It shouldn’t get to that point. We shouldn’t get used to or accustomed to power outages. It just speaks to a failing infrastructure to me,” Burke said…