Amendment: Essential Utilities Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K/A

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): August 27, 2025

Essential Utilities, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant Specified in Charter)

Pennsylvania	001-06659	23-1702594
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

762 West Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania		19010-3489
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 527-8000

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class		Trading Symbol(s)		Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, $.50 par value		WTRG		New York Stock Exchange

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Explanatory Note

 

This Form 8-K/A amends the Form 8-K filed by Essential Utilities, Inc. (the “Company”) on August 27, 2025 (the “Original 8-K”) in connection with its announcement of an agreement with IEP Hummingbird Energy, LLC and International Electric Power III, LLC. The Company is furnishing this Form 8-K/A for the sole purpose of providing a correction to the Press Release, which is furnished with this report on amended Exhibit 99.2. No other changes to the Original 8-K have been made.

 

Item 7.01

Regulation FD Disclosure.

Exhibit 99.2 is amended by correcting the heading of the Press Release and other minor corrections. The corrected version of Exhibit 99.2 is attached hereto and supersedes Exhibit 99.1 to the Original 8-K in its entirety.

  

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

Exhibit No.		Description of Exhibit
99.2		Press Release of the Company, dated August 27, 2025.
104		Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded with the Inline XBRL document).

 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	Essential Utilities, INC.
Date: August 27, 2025	By:	/s/ Christopher P. Luning
	Name:	Christopher P. Luning
	Title:	Executive Vice President, General Counsel