Rome, March 8th, 2012 Rating agency Standard & Poors announced today that it has lowered its long-term rating for Enel S.p.A. (Enel or the Company) to BBB+ (from A-). The agency also announced that it had confirmed its short-term rating of A-2 for Enel. Following the removal of the negative creditwatch, the outlook was rated as stable.
The change in the Enel rating mainly reflects the deterioration in the macroeconomic situation in Italian and Spanish markets and the higher volatility of margins in the power generation sector. The downgrade was accompanied by an analogous revision of the stand-alone rating of the Company and follows Standard & Poor's downgrade of its rating of the Italian sovereign debt.
Finally, the agency noted that the measures the Company is taking to counter the impact of the economic crisis will help improve the financial risk profile of the Enel Group despite the weakness of the economic outlook that Standard and Poors has projected for the Italian and Spanish markets.
For the dissemination to the public and the storage of regulated information made available to the public, Enel S.p.A. has decided to use respectively the platforms “eMarket SDIR” and “eMarket Storage”, both available at the address www.emarketstorage.com and managed by Teleborsa S.r.l. - with registered office in Rome, at 4 Piazza Priscilla - as per CONSOB authorization and resolutions n. 22517 and 22518 of November 23, 2022.
From May 19th 2014 to June 30th 2015, Enel S.p.A. used the authorized mechanism for the storage of regulated information denominated “1Info”, available at the address www.1info.it, managed by Computershare S.p.A. with registered office in Milan and authorized by Consob with resolution No. 18852 of April 9th, 2014.