Eversource Energy

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. (d)           On December 3, 2025, at a meeting of the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of Eversource Energy (the “Company”), Warren Robert Mudge was elected to serve as a Trustee, effective January 1, 2026. The Board also appointed Mr. Mudge to serve as a member of the Audit Committee and the Finance and Risk Management Committee. Mr. Mudge’s initial term as a Trustee will continue until the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held in May 2026. Mr. Mudge will receive an annual cash retainer in the amount of $125,000 for service on the Board during his term of office, including participation in all Board and Committee meetings. Mr. Mudge will also be entitled to receive a grant under the Eversource Incentive Plan on January 15, 2026 (the tenth business day of 2026), equal to that number of Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”) resulting from dividing $175,000 by the average closing price of Eversource Energy common shares as reported on the New York Stock Exchange for the 10 trading days immediately preceding the date of grant, rounded to the nearest whole RSU. Mr. Mudge, age 65, has served as a director of UniTek Global Services, a privately-held engineering, construction and customer operations telecom services company, since 2018. From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Mudge served as Chief Executive Officer of Connect Holding LLC, doing business as Brightspeed Communications, a privately-held telecom and Internet service provider with operations in 20 states. From 2020 to 2021, he served as a director of Windstream Holdings, Inc., a provider of voice and data network communications to businesses in the U.S. Mr. Mudge spent the bulk of his professional career (1983 to 2017) with Verizon Communications, Inc., serving in positions of increasing responsibility and culminating with seven years as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. In this role, he directed the transformation of traditional telco operations into a fiber-based platform serving more than 20 million homes and businesses and retrained Verizon’s workforce to meet new demands and requirements. There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Mudge and any other person pursuant to which he was elected as Trustee. Mr. Mudge does not have any transactions with related persons in which the Company is a participant that would require disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. A copy of the Company’s news release announcing Mr. Mudge’s election is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference. Also at its meeting on December 3, 2025, the Board appointed David H. Long as the Chair of the Governance, Environmental and Sustainability Committee, effective January 1, 2026. The members of the Governance, Environmental and Sustainability Committee will remain David H. Long, Cotton M. Cleveland, Linda Dorcena Forry and Gregory M. Jones. Finally, the Board approved changes to its Corporate Governance Guidelines to outline more precisely the Lead Independent Trustee’s responsibilities. The Corporate Governance Guidelines are available on our website at https://www.eversource.com/Content/general/about/investors/corporate-governance/guidelines. Section 9 Financial Statements and Exhibits ────────────────────────────────────────────────────