---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-032351"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ES"
cik: "0000072741"
company_name: "EVERSOURCE ENERGY"
filed_at: "2023-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T04:03:00.702095+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eversource COO Schweiger retiring; James Hunt named interim COO

## Summary
- Werner Schweiger to retire as COO effective July 1, 2023, after 9 years in the role.
- James W. Hunt III, currently EVP Corporate Relations & Sustainability and Secretary, appointed interim COO.
- Schweiger will serve as strategic advisor to Hunt and the company until his retirement date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-032351
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ES
- cik: 0000072741
- company_name: EVERSOURCE ENERGY
- filed_at: 2023-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72741/000110465923032351/0001104659-23-032351-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72741/000110465923032351/tm239425d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-032351
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-032351.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-032351.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James W. Hunt, III was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at EVERSOURCE ENERGY.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Effective upon Mr. Schweiger’s resignation, James W. Hunt, III, the Company’s Executive Vice President-Corporate Relations and Sustainability and Secretary, will serve as Chief Operating Officer on an interim basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72741/000110465923032351/0001104659-23-032351-index.htm
- Executive change
  Werner J. Schweiger departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at EVERSOURCE ENERGY.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Eversource Energy (the “Company”) announced that Werner J. Schweiger, the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, advised the Company of his intention to retire effective July 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72741/000110465923032351/0001104659-23-032351-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.