FIRSTENERGY CORP

FirstEnergy - The information called for by this Item 14. is incorporated herein by reference to FirstEnergy’s 2026 Proxy Statement to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act under the caption “Matters Relating to the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm".

JCP&L- As a wholly owned subsidiary of FE, JCP&L does not have a separate audit committee. The FE Audit Committee fulfilled the audit committee function for JCP&L as it relates to the pre-approval of 2025 and 2024 audit and non-audit services provided by the independent registered public accounting firm. As such, all audit and non-audit services provided by the independent auditor to JCP&L in 2025 and 2024 were pre-approved by the FE Audit Committee consistent with its duly adopted pre-approval policies and procedures. A description of the FE Audit Committee pre-approval policies is contained in FirstEnergy's 2026 Proxy Statement which is incorporated herein by reference as described above.

Audit fees for professional services rendered by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP were $1,212 thousand for December 31, 2025 and $1,834 thousand for December 31, 2024, respectively. These fees are related to professional services rendered for the audit of JCP&L's annual financial statements, and for services in connection with statutory and regulatory filings and engagements, including comfort letters for financings. The 2025 and 2024 audit fees also include additional audit services to support the registration of JCP&L with the SEC, as well as additional professional and other services, the cost of which may ultimately be allocated to JCP&L companies though not billed directly to them. There were no fees related to tax, audit related or other services.

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