UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 23, 2017 (August 17, 2017)
THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND
POWER COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Connecticut | 0-00404 | 06-0303850 |
(State or other jurisdiction of organization) | (Commission File Number) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
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107 Selden Street
Berlin, Connecticut |
06037 |
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (800) 286-5000
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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Section 2
Financial Information
Item 2.03
Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
On August 17, 2017, The Connecticut Light and Power Company, doing business as Eversource Energy (the “Company”), issued an additional $225,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.30% First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 2014 Series A, due 2044 (the “Series A Bonds”), pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, dated August 8, 2017, among Mizuho Securities USA LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the underwriters named therein, and the Company (the “Underwriting Agreement”). The additional Series A Bonds are part of the same series of debt securities issued by the Company on April 24, 2014. Following the closing of this offering, the aggregate principal amount of Series A Bonds outstanding totaled $475,000,000.
The additional Series A Bonds were issued under a Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2017, between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, supplementing the Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly known as Bankers Trust Company), as trustee, dated as of May 1, 1921, as amended and supplemented, including as amended and restated April 7, 2005. A copy of the Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2017, is filed herewith as Exhibit 4.1. The terms of the Series A Bonds, and the form thereof, were set forth in the Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 1, 2014, which was filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 29, 2014.
Section 9
Financial Statements and Exhibits
Item 9.01
Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
Exhibits.
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Exhibit Number | Description |
1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated August 8, 2017, among the Company and the Underwriters named therein. |
4.1 | Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2017, between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee. |
4.2 | Supplemental Indenture establishing the terms of the Series A Bonds, dated as of April 1, 2014, between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee, including the form of the Series A Bond on Schedule A thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 29, 2014). |
5 | Legal opinion of Richard J. Morrison, Esq. relating to the validity of the Series A Bonds (including consent). |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
(Registrant)
August 23, 2017
By:
/S/ PHILIP J. LEMBO
Philip J. Lembo
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
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