Toledo Edison customers are set to receive corporate misconduct refunds from the electric utility’s corporate parent FirstEnergy.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio was finally able to bring regulatory oversight they’d failed to provide in the past, following completion of the $60 million bribery case against FirstEnergy from the $1.3 billion bailout for the utility’s nuclear power plants.

The $250 million PUCO penalty comes on top of $390 million FirstEnergy has already paid in fines and settlements, including the $230 million fine from the deferred prosecution agreement with admission of corporate bribes to pass Ohio House Bill 6.

Refunds from $180 million of the fine will hit Toledo Edison bills over a three-month period. FirstEnergy must give consumers three times more than the

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