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Regulatory Filings • Aug 31, 2009

Press release Paris, August 31st, 2009

Technical incident in an electrical room at the CTBR 1 power station on Reunion Island

On Sunday, August 30th 2009, at 10.50pm (local time), an electrical defect caused a limited fire in an electric room at the CTBR1 power station on Reunion Island.

The two tranches of CTBR1, which have a combined capacity of 55MW, are unavailable. Full repair could take up to 3 weeks until the power station resumes operations.

The third tranche of CTBR, which has a capacity of 45MW, has not been affected by this incident and continues operations under normal conditions.

About Séchilienne-Sidec

Founded 25 years ago, Séchilienne-Sidec is an independent energy producer specialised in electricity generation in medium size coal/biomass, photovoltaic and wind power plants. Due to its technical expertise, its project management experience and the quality of its teams of engineers, the Group manages all stages of a power plant's life cycle: design, finance, construction and operation, all over the world and more specifically in complex environments. The Group had a total operating capacity of 584 Megawatts at 30 June 2009. ISIN: FR0000060402 – SECH

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