JUST Capital and CNBC America's Most JUST Companies seal. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Energy company ranked #1 utility and 7th overall on the JUST 100, which celebrates positive corporate business practices
HARTFORD, Conn. & BOSTON, February 03, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As a testament to its unyielding commitment to customers, communities, employees and the environment, Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) is being celebrated as a national leader for corporate responsibility through its recognition on this year’s JUST 100 list as part of its 2025 rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies, according to JUST Capital and CNBC. In its sixth straight appearance in the top 100 performers, the energy company ranked as the number one utility and 7th overall. Leading companies are recognized for their performance on top priority issues such as: paying fair, living wages; supporting worker well-being; career advancement, training, and work life balance; communicating transparently; strengthening communities; ethical leadership; and treating customers fairly.
"From our commitment to sustainability throughout our operations to the dedicated work of our employees who go above and beyond to serve their communities, corporate responsibility is at the heart of our everyday mission to deliver safe, reliable energy to our customers," said Eversource Chairman, President and CEO Joe Nolan. "Receiving this distinguished national recognition for the sixth year in a row – and to be honored as the #1 utility on the list – is another gratifying confirmation of how responsible business practices that benefit our employees, our customers and our communities are cornerstones of our company culture, and I’m proud of how we all come together at Eversource to deliver on our core values and drive positive change across the states we serve."
For the annual rankings, JUST Capital collects and analyzes corporate data to evaluate the 1,000 largest public U.S. companies on a range of factors identified by polling the American public on a fully representative basis on their priorities for business behavior. For more information and a full list of the rankings, visit cnbc.com/just100 and justcapital.com/rankings.
For more information on Eversource’s nationally recognized commitment to corporate responsibility, please visit Eversource.com.
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The mission of JUST Capital, an independent nonprofit, is to demonstrate how just business – defined by the priorities of the public – is better business. Our goal is to help companies create value for all their stakeholders – their workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders – by focusing on the issues that matter most to Americans. To date, we’ve polled more than 182,000 Americans on the issues they believe companies should prioritize when it comes to just business behavior, and those insights guide our work. We believe that business and markets can and must be a force for the greater good and that by shifting the resources of the $21.6 trillion private sector, we can drive competition to build a better future for all. Our research, rankings, indexes, initiatives, and new offerings like the JUST Jobs Scorecard help track, analyze, incentivize, and scale corporate stakeholder performance. JUST Capital publishes the annual list of America’s Most JUST Companies, the JUST 100, in partnership with CNBC. To learn more, visit: www.JUSTCapital.com.
About the JUST Capital Methodology
Since 2015, JUST Capital has surveyed more than 182,000 Americans on their priorities for business behavior. The issues identified through that process become the foundation by which we track, analyze, and incentivize corporate behavior change, including the Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies. To produce the 2025 Rankings, JUST evaluated 940 companies across 5 stakeholders, 17 Issues, and 88 raw data points.
Eversource (NYSE: ES), celebrated as a national leader for its corporate citizenship, is recognized as the #1 U.S. utility on TIME’s List of World’s Best Companies for 2024. Eversource transmits and delivers electricity and natural gas and supplies water to approximately 4.4 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The #1 energy efficiency provider in the nation, Eversource harnesses the commitment of more than 10,000 employees across three states to build a single, united company around the mission of safely delivering reliable energy and water with superior customer service. The company is empowering a clean energy future in the Northeast, with nationally recognized energy efficiency solutions and successful programs to integrate new clean energy resources like a first-in-the-nation networked geothermal pilot project, solar, offshore wind, electric vehicles and battery storage, into the electric system. For more information, please visit eversource.com, and follow us on X, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. For more information on our water services, visit aquarionwater.com.
