We have completed our review of FirstEnergy Corp. and its subsidiaries under our new criteria for management and governance (M&G; see "Management And Governance Credit Factors For Corporate Entities," published Jan. 7, 2024). As a result, we have assigned new M&G assessments of moderately negative to the companies. At the same time, we affirmed our issuer credit ratings and issue-level ratings on FirstEnergy and its subsidiaries and removed all our ratings from under criteria observation. The positive outlook on FirstEnergy reflects our expectation that at the close of the company's sale of a 30% interest in FirstEnergy Transmission LLC (FET), financial measures will improve. Specifically, we expect FirstEnergy's funds from operations (FFO) to debt to improve to be consistently above