Pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of article 244 of the Portuguese Securities code and of the CMVM Regulation 5/2008, EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A. ("EDP") is providing the following information to the market:

On January 9th, 2017, Norges Bank notified EDP that, in accordance with article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code, it decreased its qualifying shareholding to 73,080,477 ordinary shares of EDP, which corresponds to 1.999% of EDP's share capital and of the respective voting rights. All shares are held directly by Norges Bank.

The shares held by Norges Bank decreased below the 2.00% level of EDP's share capital on January 9th, 2017. The previous known qualifying shareholding of Norges Capital in EDP's share capital stood at 2.08%.

EDP – Energias de Portugal. S.A.