Exhibit 10.35.1 

     Amendment No. 1 to Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan For Officers
of Northeast Utilities System Companies  

Section V(a) of the Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan for Officers of
Northeast Utilities System Companies is hereby amended, effective as of
August 1, 1993, to read in its entirety
as follows:

       "(a) equals a lifetime benefit in an annual amount equal to 60
percent of the Participant's Final Average Compensation multiplied by the
ratio of the Participant's Credited Service at the date his or her Credited
Service ends to twenty-five years (such ratio not to exceed one), which
benefit shall be reduced, if payment of the Target Benefit shall commence
prior to the Participant's attainment of age 65, in accordance with the
factors set forth in the Retirement Plan applicable to retirement benefits
of employees retiring on an early retirement date, Credit Service and age
to be determined for purpose of this subsection (a) after taken into
account any additions to age and/or Credited Service pursuant to any
retirement incentive program."