EVERSOURCE ENERGY — Director's Dealing 2018

Jan 17, 2018

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: EVERSOURCE ENERGY (ES)
CIK: 0000072741
Period of Report: 2018-01-16

Reporting Person: GIFFORD CHARLES K (Trustee)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2018-01-16	Common Shares, $5.00 par value	A	2175	—	Acquired	22921	Direct

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Phantom Shares	$		Common Shares, $5.00 par value (49495)	49495	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Restricted share units that were granted on January 16, 2018 and will vest on May 2, 2018, subject to shareholder approval, and for which 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.