Notice of OGMS and EGMS on Oct 21st 2016

Societatea Energetică Electrica S.A.

9, Grigore Alexandrescu str. 010621

District 1, Bucharest, Romania

Phone: 021-208 59 99; Fax: 021-208 59 98

Fiscal Registration Certificate RO 13267221

J40/7425/2000

Share capital: 3.459.399.290 RON

www.electrica.ro

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: 02 September 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:

Convening of the Ordinary General Meeting and of the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Societatea Energetică Electrica S.A. on 21 October 2016

In compliance with the Companies Law no. 31/1990, Capital Market Law no. 297/2004 and CNVM Regulation no. 1/2006 on issuers and operations with securities, Societatea Energetică Electrica S.A. (Electrica or the Company) convenes the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (OGMS) on 21 October 2016, 10:00 o'clock (Romanian time) and the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (EGMS) on 21 October 2016, 11:00 o'clock (Romanian time).

The information materials related to the agenda of the Electrica OGMS and EGMS shall be made available to the shareholders, in electronic format on the Company's website at www.electrica.ro, Investors section -> The General Meeting of Shareholders, starting with 16 September 2016 and in hardcopy at the Registry Desk of the Company located at its headquarters starting with 19 September 2016.

The Convening Notice of the OGMS and of the EGMS was approved in the Company's board of directors meeting dated 1 September 2016. The Convening Notice of the OGMS and of the EGMS is to be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part IV and in the newspaper Bursa (national newspaper) on 2 September 2016.

Attached: Convening Notice of the Ordinary General Meeting and of the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on 21 October 2016, together with its annex - the proposals for amendment of the Articles of Association of the Company.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/8494I_-2016-9-2.pdf

CEO,

Iuliana Andronache