Company: CNLHP
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000072741-25-000007
Chunk: 178

Company: CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 178
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 respectively.  Capital expenditures were primarily for continuing projects to maintain and improve infrastructure and operations, including enhancing reliability to the transmission and distribution systems. 

Contractual Obligations:  For information regarding our cash requirements from contractual obligations and payment schedules, see Note 9, "Long-Term Debt," Note 10, "Rate Reduction Bonds and Variable Interest Entities," Note 11A, "Employee Benefits - Pension Benefits and Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pension," Note 13, "Commitments and Contingencies," and Note 14, "Leases," to the financial statements.  

Estimated interest payments on existing long-term fixed-rate debt are calculated by multiplying the coupon rate on the debt by its scheduled notional amount outstanding for the period of measurement as of December 31, 2024 and are as follows:

(Millions of Dollars)20252026202720282029ThereafterTotalEversource$1,113.5 $1,044.2 $982.4 $872.3 $764.4 $6,793.6 $11,570.4 

Our commitments to make payments in addition to these contractual obligations include other liabilities reflected on our balance sheets, and guarantees of certain obligations primarily associated with construction of our previously owned offshore wind investments.

For information regarding our projected capital expenditures over the next five years, see "Business Development and Capital Expenditures - Projected Capital Expenditures" included in this Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

Credit Ratings:  A summary of our current corporate credit ratings and outlooks by S&P, Moody's, and Fitch is as follows:

 S&PMoody'sFitch CurrentOutlookCurrentOutlookCurrentOutlookEversource ParentBBB+StableBaa2NegativeBBBStableCL&PA-StableA3NegativeA- StableNSTAR ElectricA-StableA2NegativeA-StablePSNHA-StableA3StableA-Stable

A summary of the current credit ratings and outlooks by S&P, Moody's, and Fitch for senior unsecured debt of Eversource parent and NSTAR Electric, and senior secured debt of CL&P and PSNH is as follows:

 S&PMoody'sFitch CurrentOutlookCurrentOutlookCurrentOutlookEversource ParentBBBStableBaa2NegativeBBBStableCL&PAStableA1NegativeA+StableNST