Announcement regarding 2019 Dividends payment

To:                              Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)

                                    London Stock Exchange (LSE)

                                    Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA)

Current report in compliance with the Law 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 and the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code

Report date: 26 May 2020

Company name: Societatea Energetică Electrica S.A.

Headquarters: 9 Grigore Alexandrescu Street, 1st District, Bucharest, Romania

Phone/fax no: 004-021-2085999/ 004-021-2085998

Fiscal Code: RO 13267221

Trade Register registration number: J40/7425/2000

Subscribed and paid in share capital: RON 3,459,399,290

Regulated market where the issued securities are traded: Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Significant events to be reported:

The payment of dividends for the financial year 2019 by Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. 

Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. (Electrica or the Company) informs its shareholders that, following the resolution of the ordinary general meeting of the shareholders dated 29 April 2020, it will pay the dividends for the financial year 2019, through Depozitarul Central S.A. and the payment agent BRD - Groupe Société Générale S.A., starting with 26 June 2020, to Electrica's shareholders registered in the Shareholders' Registry held by Depozitarul Central S.A. on the registration date of 9 June 2020.

The value of the gross dividend is RON 0.7248 per share, and the tax on dividend will be withheld by applying the appropriate legal tax rates, as the case may be.

Details concerning the payment methods of the dividends are presented in the document annexed to this report (Announcement regarding the 2019 dividends payment method), as well as on Electrica's website www.electrica.ro, under Investors > Shares and Shareholders > Dividends section. The announcement regarding the 2019 dividends payment method will also be published in the newspaper Romania Libera dated 26 May 2020.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/8276N_1-2020-5-25.pdf

CEO                                            

Georgeta Corina Popescu