Eversource Energy announced that Werner Schweiger is retiring as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and that James Hunt, the company's Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations & Sustainability and Corporate Secretary, has been named as interim COO. Schweiger has served as Eversource's COO for the past nine years, and held multiple other leadership roles for Eversource and predecessor companies including leading electric operations for 21 years. Schweiger will remain with the company as a strategic advisor and will retire from company on July 1, 2023.

Hunt has worked at Eversource and its predecessor companies for 10 years. He was promoted to his current role in 2021. As interim COO, he will oversee Eversource Energy's electric transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution, water distribution, engineering, emergency preparedness, operations services, safety and offshore wind execution functions.

Hunt holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a J.D. from Suffolk University.