Consolidated Edison Inc. VOTE BY TELEPHONE AND INTERNET
4 Irving Place, New York, N.Y. 10003 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK
TELEPHONE
800-650-4644
Use any touch-tone telephone to vote your proxy. Have your proxy card in hand
when you call. You will be prompted to enter your control number, located in the
box below, and then follow the simple directions.
INTERNET
HTTP://PROXY.SHAREHOLDER.COM/CONED
Use the Internet to vote your proxy. Have your proxy card in hand when you
access the website. You will be prompted to enter your control number, located
in the box below, to create an electronic ballot.
MAIL
Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope
we have provided.
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Your telephone or Internet vote If you have submitted your proxy by
authorizes the named proxies to telephone or the Internet there is
vote your shares in the same manner no need for you to mail back your
as if you marked, signed and proxy.
returned the proxy card. ------------------------------------
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CALL TOLL-FREE TO VOTE -- IT'S FAST AND CONVENIENT CONTROL NUMBER FOR
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DETACH PROXY CARD HERE IF YOU ARE NOT
VOTING BY TELEPHONE OR INTERNET
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PLEASE DETACH HERE
YOU MUST DETACH THIS PORTION OF THE PROXY CARD
BEFORE RETURNING IT IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE
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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE FOR THE FOLLOWING:
(1) Approval and adoption of the proposed Amended and Restated Agreement and
Plan of Merger between Consolidated Edison, Inc. and Northeast Utilities. FOR / / AGAINST / / ABSTAIN / /
ADDRESS CHANGE AND/OR
COMMENTS MARK HERE / /
If you plan to attend the
meeting and want an / /
admission ticket, check here.
Dated: _________________________, 2000
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SIGNATURE(S)
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SIGNATURE(S)
PLEASE SIGN, DATE AND RETURN Votes MUST be indicated (x)
THIS PROXY PROMPTLY in black or blue ink.
CONSOLIDATED EDISON, INC. THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF
COMMON STOCK OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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PLEASE DATE AND The undersigned hereby appoints E. Virgil Conway, Peter
SIGN ON REVERSE W. Likins and Joan S. Freilich and each or any of them
SIDE. TO VOTE IN with power of substitution, proxies to vote all stock of
ACCORDANCE WITH the undersigned (including any shares held through the
THE RECOMMEN- Company's Automatic Dividend Reinvestment and Cash
DATIONS OF THE Payment Plan) at the Special Meeting of Stockholders on
BOARD OF April 14, 2000 (at 2:00 p.m. at the Company's
DIRECTORS NO Headquarters, 4 Irving Place, New York, N.Y.) or at any
BOXES NEED BE adjournments thereof, on the proposal, all as more fully
CHECKED. set forth in the proxy statement, and in their discretion
on any matters that may come before the meeting.
THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED AS DIRECTED ON THE REVERSE SIDE,
BUT IF NO CHOICE IS MADE, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED "FOR"
THE MERGER PROPOSAL.
CON EDISON
P.O. BOX 11003
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10203-0003