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Repayment of Credit Facility<br />

With effect from January 31, 2011, an additional volun-<br />

tary early repayment was made on the Credit Facility<br />

Agreement held by <strong>Enel</strong> Finance International and <strong>Enel</strong><br />

SpA, of which:<br />

> €1,484 million related to the tranche maturing in 2012;<br />

> €1,042 million related to the tranche maturing in 2014;<br />

> €474 million related to the tranche maturing in 2016.<br />

Sale of CAM and Synapsis<br />

On February 24, 2011, the disposal of the Peruvian <strong>com</strong>pany<br />

Grana y Montero of the Multi-American Company<br />

(CAM) was <strong>com</strong>pleted at a price of $20 million. On March<br />

1, 2011, the disposal of Synapsis IT Solutions and Services<br />

(Synapsis) to Riverwood Capital was <strong>com</strong>pleted at a price<br />

of $52 million.<br />

Both <strong>com</strong>panies are classified in these financial statements<br />

as assets and liabilities held for sale.<br />

Bond issue for institutional<br />

investors<br />

On March 2, 2011, the Board of Directors of <strong>Enel</strong> SpA, as<br />

part of the strategy to extend the average maturity of the<br />

Group’s consolidated debt and to optimize the profile of<br />

its medium and long-term maturities, approved the issue<br />

by December 31, 2011, of one or more bonds, to be placed<br />

with institutional investors, up to a maximum amount of<br />

€1 billion.<br />

The bond issues may be carried out either directly by <strong>Enel</strong><br />

SpA or by its Dutch subsidiary <strong>Enel</strong> Finance International<br />

NV (guaranteed by the Parent Company) in relation to<br />

opportunities offered by the latter for placing bonds on<br />

regulated foreign markets and/or in private placements<br />

with foreign institutional investors.<br />

The Board of Directors also empowered the CEO to allocate<br />

the bond issues between the two above-mentioned<br />

<strong>com</strong>panies, as well as setting the amounts, currencies,<br />

timing and characteristics of the individual issues, and the<br />

power to apply for listing them on one or more regulated<br />

markets.<br />

Acquisition of additional<br />

stakes in CESI SpA<br />

On March 11, 2011, <strong>Enel</strong> SpA acquired E.ON Produzione<br />

SpA’s entire holding in CESI SpA, equal to 3.9% (134,033<br />

shares). On March 25, 2011, additional holdings in CESI<br />

were acquired from Edison, Edipower, Iren Energia and<br />

A2A, totaling 9.6% of share capital (328,432 shares). Following<br />

the transactions, <strong>Enel</strong> SpA holds 39.4% of CESI.<br />

Agreement for disposal of<br />

Maritza<br />

On March 14, 2011, <strong>Enel</strong> reached an agreement with ContourGlobal<br />

for the sale of the entire share capital of the<br />

Netherlands-registered <strong>com</strong>panies Maritza East III Power<br />

Holding BV and Maritza O&M Holding Netherland BV,<br />

which own, respectively, 73% of the share capital of the<br />

Bulgarian <strong>com</strong>pany Maritza East 3 AD, which in turn is the<br />

owner of a lignite-fired power station with an installed capacity<br />

of 908 MW (“Maritza”), and 73% of the share capital<br />

of the Bulgarian <strong>com</strong>pany <strong>Enel</strong> Operations Bulgaria AD,<br />

which is responsible for operating and maintaining the<br />

Maritza plant.<br />

ContourGlobal will pay <strong>Enel</strong> a total of €230 million for the<br />

<strong>com</strong>panies. The transaction is expected to close by July<br />

2011 and is subject to obtaining the necessary authorisations<br />

from the relevant authorities.<br />

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