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NORTHEAST UTILITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
NSTAR ELECTRIC COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SUBSIDIARY
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES
LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995
References in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to "NU," "the Company," "we," "our," and "us" refer to Northeast Utilities and its subsidiaries.
Effective February 2, 2015, the Company began doing business as Eversource Energy.
From time to time we make statements concerning our expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, strategies, assumptions of future events, future
financial performance or growth and other statements that are not historical facts. These statements are "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can generally identify our forward-looking statements through the use of
words or phrases such as "estimate," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "project," "believe," "forecast," "should," "could," and other similar
expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations, estimates, assumptions or projections of management and are not
guarantees of future performance. These expectations, estimates, assumptions or projections may vary materially from actual results. Accordingly,
any such statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to, and are accompanied by, the following important factors that could cause our
actual results to differ materially from those contained in our forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to:
cyber breaches, acts of war or terrorism, or grid disturbances,
actions or inaction of local, state and federal regulatory, public policy and taxing bodies,
changes in business and economic conditions, including their impact on interest rates, bad debt expense, and demand for our products and
services, which could include disruptive technology related to our current or future business model,
fluctuations in weather patterns,
changes in laws, regulations or regulatory policy,
changes in levels or timing of capital expenditures,
disruptions in the capital markets or other events that make our access to necessary capital more difficult or costly,
developments in legal or public policy doctrines,
technological developments,
changes in accounting standards and financial reporting regulations,
actions of rating agencies, and
other presently unknown or unforeseen factors.
Other risk factors are detailed in our reports filed with the SEC and updated as necessary, and we encourage you to consult such disclosures.
All such factors are difficult to predict, contain uncertainties that may materially affect our actual results and are beyond our control. You should not
place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, each speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and we undertake no
obligation to update any forward-looking statement or statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or
to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New factors emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all of such factors, nor
can we assess the impact of each such factor on the business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. For more information, see Item 1A included in this
combined Annual Report on Form 10-K. This Annual Report on Form 10-K also describes material contingencies and critical accounting policies in
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