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ENDESA (NYSE: ELE): -- The plant is being connected to the grid for the first time, upgrading the city's existing network. -- Investment in the 400 MW CCGT totalled Euro 218 million. -- ENDESA operates six CCGTs in Spain and total installed capacity between the mainland and islands stands at 1,854 MW. Another 1,906 MW of capacity will be added from the five CCGTs currently being built by the company. ENDESA (NYSE: ELE) has connected the 400 MW Huelva CCGT to the grid for the first time, upgrading the city's existing network. The total budget for this plant stands at around Euro 218 million. Output reached around 20 MW in this first synchronisation to the network, which marks the start of tests at different loads that will be carried out until the plant begins operating commercially. This will happen once quality and reliability tests have concluded and the plant has run for 100 hours at full throttle. When the CCGT begins commercial operations it will replace the capacity of the plant's existing fuel and fuel-oil/gas gas groups. This will provide huge environment-related benefits and greater guarantees of supply for the city of Huelva and the area surrounding the plant, as well as a substantial boost to the plant's productivity. In Spain, ENDESA has six CCGTs in operation between the mainland and islands with a capacity of 1,854 MW. Another 1,906 MW of capacity will be added from the five CCGTs currently being built by the company: two on the mainland, which will contribute 1,205 MW, and three on the islands, which will contribute a combined 701 MW. Endesa will construct a total of 3,200 MW over the 2006-2009 period, situating it in the vanguard in our country in the development of a technology that will make a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy efficiency. * This document may contain certain forward-looking statements regarding anticipated financial and operating results and statistics that are subject to risks and uncertainties as well as to material risks, changes and other factors which may be difficult to predict, including, without limitation, those factors described in the Documento de Registro de Acciones of Endesa filed within the Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores and in the Form 20-F of Endesa filed within the Securities and Exchange Commission, both for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004. For all of these forward-looking statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbour for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.