---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-006447"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ES"
cik: "0000072741"
company_name: "EVERSOURCE ENERGY"
filed_at: "2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T08:44:31.101309+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eversource to sell Aquarion Water for ~$2.4B; expects ~$300M loss in Q4 2024

## Summary
- Enterprise value of $2.4B: $1.6B cash + $800M net debt extinguished at close.
- Sale to Aquarion Water Authority, a CT quasi-public water authority; expected close late 2025.
- Eversource expects ~$300M loss on sale in Q4 2024, including ~$140M income tax expense.
- Proceeds to pay down parent debt and reinvest in core electric and natural gas businesses.
- Long-term EPS growth target of 5% to 7% through 2028 reaffirmed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-006447
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ES
- cik: 0000072741
- company_name: EVERSOURCE ENERGY
- filed_at: 2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72741/000110465925006447/0001104659-25-006447-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72741/000110465925006447/tm254636d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-006447.txt

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