The 2018 dividends payment methods

To: Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF)

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB)

London Stock Exchange (LSE)

Current report in compliance with the Law 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations, ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and the Bucharest Stock Exchange Code

Report date: 24 May 2019

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 2018 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 25 April 2019, it will pay the dividends for the financial year 2018 through Depozitarul Central S.A. and the payment agent BRD - Groupe Société Générale S.A., starting with 24 June 2019, to Electrica's shareholders registered in the Shareholders' Registry held by Depozitarul Central S.A. on the registration date of 7 June 2019.

The value of the gross dividend is RON 0.73 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 2018 dividends payment method), as well as on Electrica's website www.electrica.ro, Investors > Shares and Shareholders > Dividends section. The announcement regarding the 2018 dividends payment method will also be published in the newspaper Romania Libera dated 27 May 2019.

CEO

Georgeta Corina Popescu