Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000561
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Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: DEF 14A
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 the Availability of Proxy Materials For the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to Be Held on May 20, 2025 You are invited to participate in the Annual Meeting via live audiocast. Whether or not you expect to virtually attend the Annual Meeting, please vote on the matters to be considered as promptly as possible in order to ensure your representation at the meeting. You may vote at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MSEX2025 when you enter your 16-digit control number included with the Notice of Internet Availability or proxy card. Instructions on how to attend, participate in, and ask questions at, the Annual Meeting are posted at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MSEX2025. You will be also able to vote your shares while attending the Annual Meeting by following the instructions on the website. The Board has fixed the close of business on March 25, 2025 as the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting. Only shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 25, 2025, or their proxy holders, may vote at the Annual Meeting. Please note in the absence of specific instructions as to how to vote, brokers may not vote your shares on the election of Directors or the non-binding proposal regarding the compensation of our Named Executive Officers. This proxy statement is first being provided to our shareholders on or about April 10, 2025.

| Iselin,        
 New Jersey     
 April 10, 2025 | On Behalf of the Board of Directors,          |
|:---------------|:----------------------------------------------|
|                | Jay L. Kooper                                 |
|                | Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary |

2 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY This summary highlights information contained in further detail elsewhere in this Proxy Statement. It does not contain all of the information you should consider and you should read the entire Proxy Statement carefully before voting. For more complete information regarding the Company’s 2024 performance, please also review the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Matters to be Voted Upon The following table summarizes the proposals to be voted upon at the Annual Meeting and the Board’s voting recommendations with respect to each proposal:

| PROPOSAL                 | BOARD VOTE RECOMMENDATION | PAGE REFERENCE |
| 1. Election of Directors | FOR EACH DIRECTOR NOMINEE |              6 |

| DIRECTOR NOMINEES  |