VIII Edition of the Platts Global Energy Awards ENDESA, Power Company of the Year

  
    
  
  
    
      ENDESA (NYSE:ELE) has received the “power 
      company of the year” award at the eighth 
      edition of the Platts Global Energy Awards, one of the most prestigious 
      in the energy sector in the world. José Luis 
      Marín, general manager of Endesa Red, 
      represented ENDESA at the awards ceremony and gala dinner which took 
      place at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York with over 500 leading 
      executives from the world’s major companies in 
      attendance.
    
    
      ENDESA was competing in the category of best power company of the year 
      with nine other leading European and North American companies. The jury 
      took into consideration the following aspects when choosing the winner: 
      financial results, technological innovation, customer service, 
      competition, strategic vision and risk management. Bruce Power, Duke 
      Power Company, Éléctricité 
      de France, Energy Corporation, Hydro One Network, NRG Energy Inc., NTPC 
      Limited, TXU Corporation and WPS Resources were the other finalists.
    
    
      The Platts Global Energy Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and, since then 
      strive to recognise the leading companies in the industry in 17 
      categories. The winners are chosen from a list of 200 companies by a 
      jury comprising national regulators, senior executives from leading 
      energy companies and legislators.
    
    
      Platts is a division of publishing group McGraw-Hill Companies and one 
      of the leading energy research and information companies in the world.
    
    
      * 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 Comisión 
      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, 2005. 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.