EVERSOURCE ENERGY — Director's Dealing 2014

Sep 3, 2014

SEC Form 3 — Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: NORTHEAST UTILITIES (NU)
CIK: 0000072741
Period of Report: 2014-09-02

Reporting Person: SCHWEIGER WERNER J (Executive VP and COO)

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Shares, $5.00 par value	164095	Direct
Common Shares, $5.00 par value	8373	Indirect

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Phantom Shares	$		Common Shares, $5.00 par value (99012)		Direct
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$21.14	2016-04-27	Common Shares, $5.00 par value (62976)		Direct
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$28.12	2017-05-03	Common Shares, $5.00 par value (47232)		Direct
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$24.74	2018-01-24	Common Shares, $5.00 par value (39360)		Direct
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$25.93	2019-01-22	Common Shares, $5.00 par value (48544)		Direct
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$26.90	2020-01-28	Common Shares, $5.00 par value (36736)		Direct

Footnotes

F1: Includes restricted share units and dividend equivalents thereon.

F2: Shares held in trust under the Northeast Utilities Service Company 401k Plan, a qualified plan, according to information supplied by the Plan's record keeper.

F3: Reporting Person's deferred compensation under the Northeast Utilities Deferred Compensation Plan for Executives, a non-qualified deferred compensation plan, that is nominally invested as common shares. Each phantom share represents the right to receive the cash value of one NU common share upon a distribution event, following vesting. Additional phantom shares are issued upon the automatic reinvestment of dividend-equivalents exempt from line item reporting under SEC Rule 16a-11.