EVERSOURCE ENERGY — Director's Dealing 2016

Feb 23, 2016

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: EVERSOURCE ENERGY (ES)
CIK: 0000072741
Period of Report: 2016-02-19

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

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2016-02-19	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	F	1006	$53.51	Disposed	168947	Direct
2016-02-19	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	F	1086	$53.51	Disposed	167861	Direct
2016-02-22	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	F	4777	$54.67	Disposed	163084	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Shares, $5.00 par value	9292	Indirect

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Phantom Shares	$		Common Shares, $5.00 par value (104075)	104075	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Disposition of common shares to satisfy tax withholding obligations.

F2: Includes restricted share units, deferred restricted share units 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 the cash value of 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.