EVERSOURCE ENERGY — Director's Dealing 2017

Jun 1, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: EVERSOURCE ENERGY (ES)
CIK: 0000072741
Period of Report: 2017-05-31

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

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2017-05-31	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	M	36736	$26.90	Acquired	196205	Direct
2017-05-31	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	S	36736	$62.00	Disposed	159469	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2017-05-31	Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$26.90	M	36736	Disposed	2020-01-28	Common Shares, $5.00 par value (36736)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Shares, $5.00 par value	9949	Indirect

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Phantom Shares	$		Common Shares, $5.00 par value (108241)	108241	Direct

Footnotes

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

F2: This sale was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting person on March 1, 2017.

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.