Eversource Energy Q1 2021 Earnings Call Summary

The following is excerpted from the question-and-answer section of the transcript.

Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst : So can you hear me?

Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst : So just to sort of come back to Connecticut, reading all these and it's a myriad of filings and orders and what have you, I get the sense that there's sort of rate resistance there or concern about rates. And as you guys have a -- they also want good transformation, and they want a lot of investment. So at least that's how I'm seeing it, they want both these things. And I'm just wondering how you thread the needle here or how do you picture this if on the one hand, there's a demand for more investment. On the other hand, there seems to me at least to be whether it's what their comments on the Take Back the Grid Act, just panoply of stuff here that they basically are apprehensive about rate increases or want lower rates. How should we think about that? How do you think about it?

Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst : Okay. But is there anything that we should think about in terms of potentially offsetting these rates or I mean is there any -- I mean, it's one thing for them to be wanting green energy and everything and another thing is actually wanting to pay for it. Is there any sense that we should get in terms of whether or not how that might fall out, I guess, the two competing interests, so to speak?