Eversource Serves Cease & Desist Letter on the Environmental Defense Fund

Energy company takes extraordinary step in ordering group to stop
perpetuating false and defamatory statements

HARTFORD, Conn. & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eversource Energy today put the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) on
notice that the company will pursue legal action if EDF doesn’t halt its
false and defamatory statements regarding Eversource’s gas purchasing
practices.

“Your false and misleading statements are immediately actionable and
expose you and those acting in concert with you to liability for
substantial damages,” the Cease
and Desist letter states. “If you do not cease and desist from all
further publication of such statements, Eversource will take all
appropriate action; indeed, we have retained outside counsel to protect
our rights.”

The EDF earlier this year published a document concerning Eversource’s
gas purchases and containing statements that are completely unsupported
by any legitimate data. In subsequent presentations and interviews, EDF
has repeatedly and falsely stated that Eversource has intentionally
withheld gas pipeline capacity from the wholesale power market.

“We are outraged by the reckless claims that EDF continues to perpetuate
and are shocked at how aggressively they continue to look for
opportunities to spread these incredibly false narratives,” said
Eversource President of Gas Operations Bill Akley. “As a local gas
company, we are required to make sure our customers have enough gas for
heating their homes, particularly on cold New England nights. We stand
confidently by our supply planning and management strategies and our
employees who make those decisions in the best interest of our gas
customers.”

The Cease and Desist letter demands that EDF immediately refrain from
any further defamation of Eversource, and that EDF remove all versions
of its document from its website and advise all parties to whom they
have supplied the document to do the same.

The EDF piece has been widely discredited by industry experts because it
reveals a basic lack of understanding of how gas distribution companies
purchase gas supplies and the transmission pipeline capacity to deliver
those supplies to customers. Eversource makes no profit on the energy
supply portion of the bill. Whether supply costs go up or down, fuel
costs are passed directly to customers in adherence with state
regulations.

About Eversource:
Eversource (NYSE: ES) transmits
and delivers electricity and natural gas and supplies water to
approximately 4 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New
Hampshire. Recognized as the top U.S. utility for its energy efficiency
programs by the sustainability advocacy organization Ceres, Eversource
harnesses the commitment of its more than 8,300 employees across three
states to build a single, united company around the mission of safely
delivering reliable energy and water with superior customer service. For
more information, please visit our website (www.eversource.com)
and follow us on Twitter (@EversourceCorp) and Facebook
(facebook.com/EversourceEnergy). For more information on our water
services, visit www.aquarionwater.com.

Contacts

Eversource Energy
Caroline Pretyman, 617-424-2460
[email protected]