EVERSOURCE ENERGY — Director's Dealing 2016

Jul 18, 2016

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: EVERSOURCE ENERGY (ES)
CIK: 0000072741
Period of Report: 2016-07-15

Reporting Person: MAY THOMAS J (Chrmn of the Board & Trustee)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2016-07-15	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	A	1140	—	Acquired	316709	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Shares, $5.00 par value	69979	Indirect

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Phantom Shares	$		Common Shares, $5.00 par value (928596)	928596	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Restricted share units that vested on July 18, 2016, receipt of which has been deferred. Distribution will be made on a one-for-one basis in Common Shares on the 10th day of January following the reporting person's retirement from Board services.

F2: The reporting person's total includes vested restricted share units, receipt of which has been deferred, and dividend equivalents thereon.

F3: Shares held in trust under the Eversource 401k Plan, a qualified plan, according to information supplied by the Plan's record keeper.

F4: Reporting Person's deferred compensation under the Eversource Deferred Compensation Plan, a non-qualified deferred compensation plan, that is nominally invested as common shares. Each phantom share represents the right to receive one Eversource Energy 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.