EVERSOURCE ENERGY — Director's Dealing 2017

Jan 19, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: EVERSOURCE ENERGY (ES)
CIK: 0000072741
Period of Report: 2017-01-17

Reporting Person: VAN FAASEN WILLIAM C (Trustee)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2017-01-17	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	A	2452	—	Acquired	14151	Direct

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Phantom Shares	$		Common Shares, $5.00 par value (30586)	30586	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Restricted share units that vested on January 18, 2017, receipt of the underlying shares has been deferred. Distribution will be made on a one-for-one basis in common shares on the 10th business day of January of the year following the reporting person's retirement from the Board.

F2: Includes restricted share units and dividend equivalents thereon.

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.