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%.

Financial planning and operational proficiency help to achieve industry leading EBITDA margin of 75%

EDP Renewables (the fourth largest wind operator in the world), through its subsidiary Horizon Wind Energy, has just entered into a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to sell 115 MW of renewable wind energy from the first phase of its Pioneer Prairie Wind Farm located in Mitchell and Howard Counties in Iowa.  

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.

EDP Renovaveis (“EDPR”) and SeaEnergy PLC (“SeaEnergy”) have been awarded acreage by The Crown Estate (Zone 1) to develop offshore wind farms in the Moray Firth, Scotland, with an approximate installed capacity of 1.3GW, as part of the UK Round 3 awards, enough to power 730,000 homes.

A Crown Estate (entidade que gere a propriedade da coroa inglesa) concedeu à EDP Renováveis (“EDPR”) e à SeaEnergy PLC (“SeaEnergy”) uma área (Zona 1), no âmbito das adjudicações do concurso UK Round 3,  para o desenvolvimento de parques eólicos offshore no Estuário de Moray (Moray Firth), na Escócia, com uma capacidade instalada de cerca de 1,3 GW, suficiente para fornecer energia a 730 000 lares.

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.