Eversource (ES) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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Thu, May 7, 2026 astatine 10:11 AM CDT 29 min read

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DATE

Thursday, May 7, 2026 astatine 9:00 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer — Joseph R. Nolan

• Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer — John M. Moreira

• Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer — Jay Booth

Full Conference Call Transcript

Joseph R. Nolan, our chairman, president, and main enforcement officer, and John M. Moreira, our enforcement vice president, main fiscal officer, and treasurer. Also joining america contiguous is Jay Booth, our vice president, controller, and main accounting officer. I volition present crook the telephone implicit to Joseph.

Joseph R. Nolan: Thank you, Rima, and bully morning, everyone, and convey you for joining america contiguous for our archetypal 4th 2026 net call. Beginning connected Slide 4, we are starting the twelvemonth connected beardown operational footing and with a wide program for disciplined execution of our cardinal strategical objectives of information and reliability, strengthening the equilibrium sheet, and derisking our concern profile. As you tin spot connected Slide 5, our squad delivered fantabulous operational performance, particularly during the almighty blizzard we experienced successful February. With implicit 40 inches of snowfall and upwind gusts implicit 70 miles per hour, this nor’easter was 1 of the astir terrible blizzards to interaction the Northeast, peculiarly Massachusetts, successful caller years.

We executed a ample coordinated restoration effort, mobilizing thousands of enactment crews, leveraging communal aid, and utilizing distant switching and pre-staged materials to reconstruct work rapidly portion keeping safety-critical facilities apical of mind. Our squad worked successful choky coordination with section and authorities agencies to prioritize beingness safety, accelerate restorations, and enactment impacted communities. In total, we responded to implicit 2 1000 fire, police, and information events and restored powerfulness to much than 500 1000 customers. These efforts and our palmy restoration bespeak the benefits of ongoing infrastructure investments for our electrical grid and exigency preparedness. We are precise grateful for the enactment and affirmative feedback from galore authorities and section policymakers, archetypal responders, and our customers.

A bulk of the customers surveyed aft the blizzard said they greatly appreciated however rapidly work was restored. Moving connected to Slide 6. As we look to the existent year, we admit that determination are immoderate remaining items that we request to resoluteness to further fortify our equilibrium expanse and derisk our concern profile.

Joseph R. Nolan: First, connected the merchantability of Aquarion, we received last support from PURA successful March 2026. PURA denied an entreaty from definite parties. We are present waiting for an further entreaty play to extremity successful mid-June 2026 earlier we tin adjacent the transaction. Second, connected Revolution Wind, arsenic Ørsted precocious reported, the task is astir 95% complete. The commercialized cognition day is inactive expected to beryllium successful the 2nd fractional of this year, and we look guardant to this overmuch needed root of procreation for the New England region. Given the latest operation updates and outgo estimates, we judge that the existent contingent liability equilibrium owed to GIP remains appropriate.