EDP Finance BV issued and priced today a Eurobond in the total amount of EUR 1,000,000,000 maturing in March 2015 with a coupon of 3.25%.

A EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. vem informar o mercado e o público em geral de que o membro do Conselho Geral e de Supervisão Société Nacionale pour la Recherche, la Production, le Transport, la Transformation et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures indicou o Senhor Farid Boukhalfa como seu representante naquele órgão, em substituição do Senhor Mohamed Meziane que renunciou ao cargo.

EDP Renováveis S.A. (“EDPR”), a subsidiary 77,5% controlled by EDP and listed in the Euronext Lisbon Stock Exchange, acquires 85% of Italian Wind srl, from Co-Ver group (an industrial conglomerate from the north of Italy), adding to its portfolio several wind projects in Italy totalling 520 MW in different stages of maturity and in prime locations: i) 4 wind projects totalling 108 MW classified as Tier 2; ii) 98 MW of projects classified as Tier 3; and iii) 314 MW classified as prospects.

A EDP adjudicou hoje as obras de construção civil do reforço de potência da central hidroeléctrica de Venda Nova, denominada Venda Nova III, ao consórcio MSF/Somague/Mota-Engil/Spie Batignolles pelo valor de 131 milhões de euros.

Following the obtention of the required authorizations by the Spanish regulatory and competition authorities, EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. completed today the acquisition from Gas Natural SDG, S.A. of its low pressure natural gas distribution and supply (including last resource) activities in the regions of Cantabria and Murcia, as well as the high pressure natural gas distribution assets in the regions of the Basque Country, Asturias and Cantabria, as it had been preliminarlly announced to the market on July 20, 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.

The Portuguese independent energy services regulator, ERSE, made public today the final document “Tariffs and prices for electricicity and other services in 2010”, which set a 2.9% average increase of final electricity tariffs in Portugal mainland for 2010.

Barclays Group sold the Barclays Global Investors business held through BGI UK Holdings Limited, including Barclays Global Investors Ltd, Barclays Global Investors (Deutschland) AG, Barclays Global Investors NA and Barclays Global Fund Advisors to BlackRock, Inc.

EDP Serviço Universal, S.A., the last recourse supplier for the national electricity system, a company wholly and indirectly owned by EDP, has today entered into an agreement for the assignment, by means of a true sale without recourse, to  Tagus – Sociedade de Titularização de Créditos, S.A. (“Tagus”), of the rights to receive the full amount of the positive adjustments to the electricity tariffs in respect of the costs estimated for 2009 with the implementation of energetic policies relating to over costs incurred with electricity generation under the Special Regime, accrued of the respective financial costs.