NSTAR Declares Common Share and Preferred Stock Dividends Of $0.425 Per Common Share

NSTAR

announced today that its Board of Trustees declared a quarterly dividend of $0.425 per common share. This is NSTAR's 488th consecutive dividend, payable May 2, 2011 to shareholders of record April 8, 2011. Also, the Board of Directors of NSTAR Electric Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of NSTAR, declared the following preferred stock dividends payable May 2, 2011 to shareholders of record April 8, 2011: A quarterly dividend of $1.0625 per share on NSTAR Electric's cumulative preferred stock, 4.25% series; and A quarterly dividend of $1.195 per share on NSTAR Electric's cumulative preferred stock, 4.78% series.