Item 2. PROPERTIES

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Item 2. PROPERTIES

The first mortgage indentures for the Ohio Companies, Penn, MP, PE and WP constitute direct first liens on substantially all of the respective physical property, subject only to excepted encumbrances, as defined in the first mortgage indentures. See Note 11, "Capitalization," of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for information concerning financing encumbrances affecting certain of the Utilities’ properties.

FirstEnergy controls the following generation sources as of December 31, 2020, shown in the table below. Except for the OVEC participation referenced in the footnotes to the table, the Regulated Distribution segment generating units are owned by either JCP&L or MP.



Plant (Location)	Unit	Total		Corp/Other	Regulated Distribution
		Net Demonstrated Capacity (MW)
Super-critical Coal-fired:
Harrison (Haywood, WV)	1-3	1,984		—	1,984
Fort Martin (Maidsville, WV)	1-2	1,098		—	1,098
		3,082		—	3,082
Sub-critical and Other Coal-fired:
OVEC (Cheshire, OH) (Madison, IN)	1-11	78	(1)	67	11

Pumped-storage Hydro:
Bath County (Warm Springs, VA)	1-6	487	(2)	—	487
Yards Creek (Blairstown Twp., NJ)	1-3	210	(3)	—	210
		697		—	697
Total		3,857		67	3,790

(1)Represents AE Supply's 3.01% and MP's 0.49% entitlement based on their participation in OVEC.

(2)Represents AGC's 16.25% undivided interest in Bath County. The station is operated by VEPCO.

(3)Represents JCP&L’s 50% ownership interest, which is being sold pursuant to an asset purchase agreement dated April 6, 2020, with the sale anticipated being completed in the first quarter of 2021.

The above generating plants and load centers are connected by a transmission system with various voltage ratings ranging from 23 kV to 500 kV. FirstEnergy's overhead and underground transmission lines aggregate 24,035 circuit miles.

The Utilities’ electric distribution systems include 272,531 miles of overhead pole line and underground conduit carrying primary, secondary and street lighting circuits.

FirstEnergy owns substations with a total installed transformer capacity of 155,920,348 kV-amperes.

All of FirstEnergy's transmission, distribution and generation assets operate in PJM.

FirstEnergy’s distribution and transmission systems as of December 31, 2020, consist of the following:


	Distribution Lines(1)	Transmission Lines(1)	Substation Transformer Capacity(2)
			kV Amperes
OE	67,852	—	7,202,811
Penn	13,644	—	915,584
CEI	33,073	—	9,219,531
TE	19,141	—	2,723,706
JCP&L	23,750	2,595	21,326,473
ME	19,014	—	4,765,730
PN	27,716	—	6,694,735
ATSI(3)	—	7,894	38,131,082
WP	25,114	4,322	14,298,948
MP	22,616	2,611	13,213,643
PE	20,611	2,086	10,537,204
TrAIL	—	262	13,835,000
MAIT	—	4,265	13,055,901
Total	272,531	24,035	155,920,348

(1)Circuit Miles

(2)Top rating of in-service power transformers only. Excludes grounding banks, station power transformers, and generator and customer-owned transformers.

(3)Represents transmission line assets of 69 kV and greater located in the service territories of the Ohio Companies and Penn.

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