edp announcement

Communication to the Market

Friday, 18 December 2009

Following the disclosure of the qualified shareholding released on December 7th, 2009 in relation to the voting rights attributable to BlackRock, Inc, as a result of the 139,884,362 shares of EDP's share capital, corresponding to 3.83% of the share capital and 3.86% of the respective voting rights, which are held by entities under its control, EDP hereby comunicates, based on information in the meantime provided by BlackRock, Inc.

Following the disclosure of the qualified shareholding released on December 7th, 2009 in relation to the voting rights attributable to BlackRock, Inc, as a result of the 139,884,362 shares of EDP's share capital, corresponding to 3.83% of the share capital and 3.86% of the respective voting rights, which are held by entities under its control, EDP hereby comunicates, based on information in the meantime provided by BlackRock, Inc., the chain of controlled undertakings through which the mentioned voting rights are effectively held:

• BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. holds 57,204,205 shares, corresponding to 1.56% of the share capital and 1.58% of the respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Asset Management Limited / Blackrock Advisors UK Ltd. holds 36,180,065 shares, corresponding to 0.99% of the share capital and 1.00% of the respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Investment Management (LUX) holds 16,300,000 shares, corresponding to 0.45% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Fund Advisors holds 10,272,330 shares, corresponding to 0.28% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Asset Management Japan Limited holds 9,005,713 shares, corresponding to 0.25% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited holds 2,681,060 shares, corresponding to 0.07% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Fund Managers Ltd. holds 2,389,360 shares, corresponding to 0,07% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Investment Management, LLC holds 2,158,147 shares, corresponding to 0.06% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Japan Co. Ltd. holds 1,494,978 shares, corresponding to 0.04% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V. holds 1,439,485 shares, corresponding to 0.04% of the share capital and respective voting rights;

• BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited holds 759,019 shares, corresponding to 0.02% of the share capital and respective voting rights.


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