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Item 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
A summary of the audit and audit-related fees for services rendered by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, are as follows:
| Audit Fees(1) | Audit-Related Fees(2) | |||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 2017(3) | 2018 | 2017 | |||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| FirstEnergy | $ | 7,345 | $ | 8,460 | $ | 163 | $ | 502 |
| (1) | Professional services rendered for the audits of the registrants' annual financial statements and reviews of unaudited financial statements included in the registrants' Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and for services in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements, including comfort letters, agreed upon procedures and consents for financings and filings made with the SEC. |
| (2) | Professional services rendered in 2018 and 2017 related to SEC Regulation AB. Also, in 2017, professional services rendered related to restructuring. |
| (3) | Includes approximately $1.6 million in audit fees for FES' audit in 2017. |
Tax Fees and All Other Fees
Tax-related fees totaled $120,000 in 2018. There were no tax services performed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in 2017. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP performed no other services in 2018 or 2017, however, the registrants paid approximately $6,300 and $39,500 in software subscription fees to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for 2018 and 2017, respectively.
Additional information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference to FirstEnergy’s 2019 Proxy Statement to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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