EVERSOURCE ENERGY — Director's Dealing 2017

Aug 21, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: EVERSOURCE ENERGY (ES)
CIK: 0000072741
Period of Report: 2017-08-17

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

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2017-08-17	Phantom Shares	$	I	21817	Disposed		Common Shares, $5.00 par value (21817)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Shares, $5.00 par value	160398	Direct
Common Shares, $5.00 par value	10026	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Includes deferred shares, restricted share units and dividend equivalents thereon.

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

F3: 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.

F4: Each phantom share was the economic equivalent of one Eversource energy common share. Phantom shares could be transferred into alternative investment funds at any time.