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EPS Earnings Per Share
ERISA Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
ES Default Energy Service
ESOP Employee Stock Ownership Plan
ESPP Employee Stock Purchase Plan
FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board
Fitch Fitch Ratings
FMCC Federally Mandated Congestion Charge
FTR Financial Transmission Rights
GAAP Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
GHG Greenhouse Gas
GSC Generation Service Charge
GSRP Greater Springfield Reliability Project
GWh Giga-watt Hours
HG&E Holyoke Gas and Electric, a municipal department of the town of Holyoke, MA
HQ Hydro-Québec, a corporation wholly-owned by the Québec government, including
its divisions that produce, transmit and distribute electricity in Québec, Canada
HVDC High voltage direct current
Hydro Renewable Energy H.Q. Hydro Renewable Energy, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hydro-Québec
IPP Independent Power Producers
ISO-NE ISO New England, Inc., the New England Independent System Operator
KV Kilovolt
KWh Kilowatt-Hours
LNG Liquefied natural gas
LOC Letter of Credit
LRS Last resort service
MGP Manufactured Gas Plant
Millstone Millstone Nuclear Generating station, made up of Millstone 1, Millstone 2, and
Millstone 3. All three units were sold in March 2001.
MMBtu One million British thermal units
Money Pool Northeast Utilities Money Pool
Moody's Moody's Investors Services, Inc.
MW Megawatt
MWh Megawatt-Hours
MYAPC Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company
NEEWS New England East-West Solution
NOx Nitrogen oxide
Northern Pass The high voltage direct current transmission line project from Canada into New
Hampshire
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NU supplemental benefit trust The NU Trust Under Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
NWPP Northern Wood Power Project
PBO Projected Benefit Obligation
PBOP Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pension
PBOP Plan Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pension Plan that provides certain retiree
health care benefits, primarily medical and dental, and life insurance benefits
PCRBs Pollution Control Revenue Bonds
Pension Plan Single uniform noncontributory defined benefit retirement plan
PGA Purchased Gas Adjustment
PPA Pension Protection Act
RECs Renewable Energy Certificates
Regulatory ROE The average cost of capital method for calculating the return on equity related to
the distribution and generation business segments excluding the wholesale
transmission segment
RFP Request for Proposal
RGGI Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
RMR Reliability Must Run
RNS Regional Network Service
ROE Return on Equity
RPS Renewable Portfolio Standards
RRB Rate Reduction Bond or Rate Reduction Certificate
RSUs Restricted share units
RTO Regional Transmission Organization
S&P Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC
SBC Systems Benefits Charge
SCRC Stranded Cost Recovery Charge
SERP Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
SO2 Sulfur dioxide