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 May 11th, 2015, Barclays, Plc. ("Barclays") notified EDP that, in accordance with article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code, it holds a qualifying shareholding of 99,265,250 ordinary shares of EDP, which corresponds to 2.71% of EDP's share capital and of the respective voting rights. The 2.00% of EDP's share capital were reached on May 7th, 2015, due to the purchase of 30,500,000 by Barclays Merchant Bank (Singapore) Ltd.

Barclays also informed about the chain of entities relevant for the calculation of the significant shareholding in accordance with number 1 of article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code.


EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A.