Registration No.
                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                       WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                               Form S-8
                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                under
                       THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                          Northeast Utilities
        (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

       Massachusetts                         04-2147929

(State or other jurisdiction                 (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)            Identification No.)

                       174 Brush Hill Avenue
               West Springfield, Massachusetts 01089
     (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

               Northeast Utilities Service Company 
             Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan
                     (Full Title of the Plan)

                         ROBERT E. BUSCH
        Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

                       NORTHEAST UTILITIES
                          Selden Street
                    Berlin, Connecticut 06037
                          203-665-5000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area
code, of agent for service)

                    Calculation of Registration Fee

                         Proposed       Proposed       
Title of     Amount      maximum        maximum      Amount
securities   to be       offering       aggregate    of
registered   registered  price per      offering     registration
             (1)         unit (2)       price        fee (3)

Common       5,000,000  $23.8125   $119,062,500.00   $41,056.03 Shares, par
value $5.00

1.   In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
     this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
     interests to be sold or offered pursuant to the employee benefit plan(s)
     described herein.

2.   Represents the fair market value of the common shares on September 21,
     1995, based on the average of the high and low sale price reported by
     the Wall Street Journal as Composite Transactions for such date.

3.   1/29 of 1% of the maximum aggregate offering price.                   
     INFORMATION REQUIRED PURSUANT 
               TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E TO FORM S-8



Generation Instruction E Information

     This Registration Statement is being filed for the purpose of increasing
the number of securities of the same class as other securities for which a
Registration Statement of Northeast Utilities (the Registrant) on Form S-8
relating to the same employee benefit plan is effective.

     The contents of the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 of the
Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is hereby
incorporated by reference:  File No. 33-44814, as amended.

                              PART II.

          INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT.

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents are incorporated by reference in this
     registration statement:

          (a)(1)    Annual Report on Form 10-K of Northeast Utilities for the
                    year ended December 31, 1994 (File No. 1-5324)

          (a)(2)    Annual Report on Form 11-K of the Northeast Utilities
                    Service Company Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan
                    for the year ended December 31, 1994 (File No. 2-93530)

          (b)(1)    Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of Northeast Utilities, as
                    amended, for the quarters ended March 31, 1995 and June
                    30, 1995 (File No. 1-5324)

          (c)       Description of Common Shares, $5.00 par value, of
                    Northeast Utilities contained in Amendment No. 1 (Post-
                    Effective Amendment No. 1) to Registration Statement on
                    Form S-3 (File No. 33-34622)

and all documents subsequently filed by Northeast Utilities and Northeast
Utilities Service Company Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan (the Plan)
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference in this registration statement and to be part hereof from the date
of filing of such documents.

Item 8.  Exhibits.

     The following Exhibits are filed as a part of this Registration
Statement:

Exhibit No.    Description

5              Not required - the Registrant has, in accordance with the
               provisions of Form S-8, submitted the Northeast Utilities
               Service Company Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan, as
               amended and restated as of November 21, 1991 and March 9, 1992
               and undertakes to submit any amendment thereto to the Internal
               Revenue Service ("IRS") in a timely manner and will make all
               changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the plan.

24.1           Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP, Independent Public Accountants

                              SIGNATURES

(The Registrant)  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Berlin, and State of
Connecticut, on this 27th day of September, 1995. 


                               NORTHEAST UTILITIES


                               By  /s/Robert E. Busch
                                   Executive Vice President
                                   and Chief Financial Officer






































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     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.  Each person whose signature appears
below hereby constitutes and appoints Robert E. Busch, Robert P. Wax, Jeffrey
C. Miller and Cheryl W. Grise, and each of them singly, his or her true and
lawful attorneys, with full power to each such attorney to sign for such
person in his or her name, in the capacities indicated below, any and all
amendments to this registration statement, hereby ratifying and confirming
his or her signature as it may be signed by said attorneys to any and all
amendments to said registration statement.

Signature                Title                    Date

/s/Bernard M. Fox,    Trustee, Chairman of   September 26, 1995 
Principal Executive   the Board, President
Officer               and Chief Executive Officer

/s/Robert E. Busch,   Executive Vice         September 26, 1995
Principal Financial   President and Chief
Officer               Financial Officer

/s/John W. Noyes,     Vice President and     September 26, 1995
Principal Accounting  Controller   
Officer

/s/Alfred F.          Trustee                September 26, 1995
Boschulte

/s/Cotton Mather
Cleveland             Trustee                September 26, 1995

/s/George David       Trustee                September 26, 1995

/s/Gaynor N. Kelley   Trustee                September 26, 1995

/s/Elizabeth T.       Trustee                September 26, 1995
Kennan

/s/Denham C.          Trustee                September 26, 1995
Lunt, Jr.

/s/William J.         Trustee                September 26, 1995 
Pape II   

/s/Robert E.          Trustee                September 26, 1995 
Patricelli

/s/Norman C.          Trustee                September 26, 1995  
Rasmussen
_________________
John F. Swope         Trustee                September __, 1995

/s/John F. Turner     Trustee                September 26, 1995







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(The Plan)  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit
plan) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Berlin, and
State of Connecticut, on this 26th day of September, 1995.
 

                    NORTHEAST UTILITIES SERVICE COMPANY 
                    SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT AND SAVINGS PLAN


                    By /s/Cheryl W. Grise
                    Plan Administrator















































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Registration No.
                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                       WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                               Form S-8
                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                under
                       THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                          Northeast Utilities
        (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

       Massachusetts                         04-2147929

(State or other jurisdiction                 (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)            Identification No.)

                       174 Brush Hill Avenue
               West Springfield, Massachusetts 01089
     (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

               Northeast Utilities Service Company 
             Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan
                     (Full Title of the Plan)

                         ROBERT E. BUSCH
        Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

                       NORTHEAST UTILITIES
                          Selden Street
                    Berlin, Connecticut 06037
                          203-665-5000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area
code, of agent for service)

                    Calculation of Registration Fee

                         Proposed       Proposed       
Title of     Amount      maximum        maximum      Amount
securities   to be       offering       aggregate    of
registered   registered  price per      offering     registration
             (1)         unit (2)       price        fee (3)

Common       5,000,000  $23.8125   $119,062,500.00   $41,056.03 Shares, par
value $5.00

1.   In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
     this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
     interests to be sold or offered pursuant to the employee benefit plan(s)
     described herein.

2.   Represents the fair market value of the common shares on September 21,
     1995, based on the average of the high and low sale price reported by
     the Wall Street Journal as Composite Transactions for such date.

3.   1/29 of 1% of the maximum aggregate offering price.                   
     INFORMATION REQUIRED PURSUANT 
               TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E TO FORM S-8

Generation Instruction E Information

     This Registration Statement is being filed for the purpose of increasing
the number of securities of the same class as other securities for which a
Registration Statement of Northeast Utilities (the Registrant) on Form S-8
relating to the same employee benefit plan is effective.

     The contents of the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 of the
Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is hereby
incorporated by reference:  File No. 33-44814, as amended.

                              PART II.

          INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT.

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents are incorporated by reference in this
     registration statement:

          (a)(1)    Annual Report on Form 10-K of Northeast Utilities for the
                    year ended December 31, 1994 (File No. 1-5324)

          (a)(2)    Annual Report on Form 11-K of the Northeast Utilities
                    Service Company Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan
                    for the year ended December 31, 1994 (File No. 2-93530)

          (b)(1)    Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of Northeast Utilities, as
                    amended, for the quarters ended March 31, 1995 and June
                    30, 1995 (File No. 1-5324)

          (c)       Description of Common Shares, $5.00 par value, of
                    Northeast Utilities contained in Amendment No. 1 (Post-
                    Effective Amendment No. 1) to Registration Statement on
                    Form S-3 (File No. 33-34622)

and all documents subsequently filed by Northeast Utilities and Northeast
Utilities Service Company Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan (the Plan)
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference in this registration statement and to be part hereof from the date
of filing of such documents.

Item 8.  Exhibits.

     The following Exhibits are filed as a part of this Registration
Statement:

Exhibit No.    Description

5              Not required - the Registrant has, in accordance with the
               provisions of Form S-8, submitted the Northeast Utilities
               Service Company Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan, as
               amended and restated as of November 21, 1991 and March 9, 1992
               and undertakes to submit any amendment thereto to the Internal
               Revenue Service ("IRS") in a timely manner and will make all
               changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the plan.

24.1           Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP, Independent Public Accountants

                              SIGNATURES

(The Registrant)  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Berlin, and State of
Connecticut, on this 27th day of September, 1995. 

                               NORTHEAST UTILITIES

                               By  /s/Robert E. Busch
                                   Executive Vice President
                                   and Chief Financial Officer

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     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.  Each person whose signature appears
below hereby constitutes and appoints Robert E. Busch, Robert P. Wax, Jeffrey
C. Miller and Cheryl W. Grise, and each of them singly, his or her true and
lawful attorneys, with full power to each such attorney to sign for such
person in his or her name, in the capacities indicated below, any and all
amendments to this registration statement, hereby ratifying and confirming
his or her signature as it may be signed by said attorneys to any and all
amendments to said registration statement.

Signature                Title                    Date

/s/Bernard M. Fox,    Trustee, Chairman of   September 26, 1995 
Principal Executive   the Board, President
Officer               and Chief Executive Officer

/s/Robert E. Busch,   Executive Vice         September 26, 1995
Principal Financial   President and Chief
Officer               Financial Officer

/s/John W. Noyes,     Vice President and     September 26, 1995
Principal Accounting  Controller   
Officer

/s/Alfred F.          Trustee                September 26, 1995
Boschulte

/s/Cotton Mather
Cleveland             Trustee                September 26, 1995

/s/George David       Trustee                September 26, 1995

/s/Gaynor N. Kelley   Trustee                September 26, 1995

/s/Elizabeth T.       Trustee                September 26, 1995
Kennan

/s/Denham C.          Trustee                September 26, 1995
Lunt, Jr.

/s/William J.         Trustee                September 26, 1995 
Pape II   

/s/Robert E.          Trustee                September 26, 1995 
Patricelli

/s/Norman C.          Trustee                September 26, 1995  
Rasmussen
_________________
John F. Swope         Trustee                September __, 1995

/s/John F. Turner     Trustee                September 26, 1995

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(The Plan)  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit
plan) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Berlin, and
State of Connecticut, on this 26th day of September, 1995.
 

                    NORTHEAST UTILITIES SERVICE COMPANY 
                    SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT AND SAVINGS PLAN

                    By /s/Cheryl W. Grise
                    Plan Administrator

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