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Eversource Energy (formerly known as Northeast Utilities) is a publicly traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity and natural gas service to more than 3.6 million〔http://www.nu.com/aboutnu/default.asp〕 customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Following its 2012 merger with Boston-based NSTAR, NU has more than 4,270 circuit miles of electric transmission lines, 72,000 pole miles of distribution lines, and 6,459 miles of natural gas pipeline in New England.〔http://www.nu.com/aboutNU/NUFacts.asp〕 On February 2, 2015, Northeast Utilities and all its subsidiaries rebranded themselves as "Eversource Energy".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Northeast Utilities Announces New Name )〕 The stock symbol changed on February 19, 2015 from "NU" to "ES".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NStar is becoming Eversource Energy. Here’s what you should know. - Business - The Boston Globe )〕 == History == ES was formed on July 1, 1966, with the merger of Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P) (formed in 1917), Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO)(formed in 1886), and the Hartford Electric Light Company (formed in 1878) under a single parent company, creating the first new multi-state public utility holding company since the enactment of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. In 1967, Holyoke Water Power Company (HWP)(formed in 1859) joined the NU System, and in 1992 the Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) (formed in 1926) followed. In 1999 Con Edison and Northeast Utilities entered merger negotiations and the companies began preparations to merge, but the deal fell apart in 2001 when Con Edison backed away from the merger after Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal threatened lawsuits to block it. The deal would have created one of the largest utilities in the United States.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/nyregion/northeast-says-merger-with-con-edison-has-collapsed.html〕 Legislation passed in the late 1990s deregulated the electricity market in New England and required regulated utilities to divest generating stations to competitive suppliers. In 1999 the company divested all of the generating assets of WMECO and CL&P per requirements of the Massachusetts and Connecticut legislation. The company retained some of these assets by transferring them to a new subsidiary called Northeast Generation which functioned as a competitive supplier and sold the other assets entirely: WMECO's West Springfield Generating Station and several related hydroelectric and fossil fuel generating units were sold to Con Edison, while other assets most notably the Northfield Mountain hydroelectric facility were transferred to Northeast Generation. In 2001, NU sold all of Holyoke Water Power Company's electrical distribution and hydroelectric generation assets to the City of Holyoke. The city's municipal gas electric department assumed responsibility for the generators and absorbed the HWP distribution customer base.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 NU retained the single remaining asset of HWP, the Mt. Tom coal-fired generator. Between 2000 and 2002 due to state laws, NU divested WMECO, CL&P, and PSNH's nuclear generating assets including Seabrook and Millstone stations as well as its stake in Vermont Yankee. In 2006, NU decided to sell the generating units it had earlier retained in the 1999 divestiture as competitive suppliers and shutdown its competitive generation business units. The Northeast Generation assets and the HWP Mt. Tom Station were all sold to FirstLight energy.〔http://www.nu.com/aboutnu/history.asp〕 PSNH continued to operate regulated hydroelectric and fossil fuel generation assets to serve its default/basic service customers that did not choose a competitive supplier (the state of New Hampshire had not required divestiture of its generation assets).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PSNH.com - Power Plants )〕 In November 2005, the company announced it would sell its unregulated competitive businesses, including generation and energy services. In November 2006 the company had essentially completed the divestiture of its competitive businesses. In October 2010, Northeast Utilities announced that it would merge with NSTAR, with the resulting company retaining the Northeast Utilities name for the next several years. After government approvals, the deal closed in April 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nu-closes-nstar-merger-deal-223023927.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eversource Energy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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