Company: CNLHP
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050033
Chunk: 20

Company: CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 20
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 Aquarion:  On January 27, 2025, Eversource entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Aquarion water distribution business.  Subject to certain closing adjustments, the aggregate enterprise value of the sale is approximately $2.4 billion in cash, which includes approximately $1.6 billion for the equity and $800 million of net debt that will be extinguished at closing.  The sale is subject to approval by PURA, DPU and the NHPUC, as well as other approvals pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, for which the relevant waiting period has expired, as well as other customary closing conditions.  The sale is expected to close in late 2025.  Eversource plans to use the net proceeds from the pending sale to pay down Eversource parent debt.  

The assets and liabilities of the Aquarion water distribution business met the criteria to be classified as held for sale and have been classified separately as current or long-term assets and liabilities held for sale on the Eversource balance sheets as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.  Closing of the transaction will include the finalization of working capital and other closing adjustments as well as final closing costs, which could result in a loss recorded at the time of sale.  For further information, see Note 18, “Assets Held for Sale.”  

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FERC Regulatory Matters

FERC ROE Complaints:  Four separate complaints were filed at the FERC by combinations of New England state attorneys general, state regulatory commissions, consumer advocates, consumer groups, municipal parties and other parties (collectively, the Complainants).  In each of the first three complaints, filed on October 1, 2011, December 27, 2012, and July 31, 2014, respectively, the Complainants challenged the NETOs' base ROE of 11.14 percent that had been utilized since 2005 and sought an order to reduce it prospectively from the date of the final FERC order and for the separate 15-month complaint periods.  In the fourth complaint, filed April 29, 2016, the Complainants challenged the NETOs' base ROE billed of 10.57 percent and the maximum ROE for transmission incentive (incentive cap) of 11.74 percent, asserting that these ROEs were unjust and unreasonable.