Dividend Payment Methods

To: Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF)

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB)

London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Current report in compliance with the Romanian Capital Market Law no. 297/2004, CNVM Regulation no. 1/2006, and the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code

Report date: 22 June 2016

Company name: Societatea Energetică Electrica S.A.

Headquarters: 9 Grigore Alexandrescu Street, 1st District, Bucharest, Romania

Phone/fax no: 004-021-2085999/ 004-021-2085998

Fiscal Code: RO 13267221

Trade Register registration number: J40/7425/2000

Subscribed and paid in share capital: RON 3,459,399,290

Regulated market where the issued securities are traded: Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Significant events to be reported:

The payment of dividends for the financial year 2015 by Societatea Energetică Electrica S.A. 

Societatea Energetică Electrica S.A. (Electrica or the Company) informs its shareholders that, following the resolution of the ordinary general meeting of the shareholders dated 27 April 2016, it will pay of the dividends for the financial year 2015 through Depozitarul Central S.A. and the payment agent BRD - Groupe Société Générale S.A., starting with 18 July 2016, to Electrica's shareholders registered in the Shareholders' Registry kept by Depozitarul Central S.A. on the registration date of 12 July 2016.

The value of the gross dividend is RON 0.8600 per share, and the applicable dividend tax will be deducted prior to payment, within the legal rates, as the case may be.

Details concerning the payment methods of the dividends are presented in the document annexed to this report (Announcement regarding the 2015 dividends payment methods), as well as on Electrica's website www.electrica.ro, Investors > Shares and Shareholders > Dividends section. The notice regarding the payment methods of the dividends for the year 2015 was also published in the newspaper Bursa on 22 June 2016 (no. 118).

CEO,

Iuliana Andronache