Press releases pg. 184

Monday November 5 saw the conclusion of the second public tender in which interested parties could choose from three other products from the CEZ rainbow electricity package offered for the next year. The following three products were sold through the tender - so called green electricity - a broadband supply of electricity over the whole year on weekdays, so called red electricity - monthly broadband electricity volume supplied on all days of the particular month, and so called blue electricity - monthly broadband electricity volume supplied on all weekdays of the particular month.

The companies SeveroÄŤeskĂ© doly, a.s., Mostecka uhelna spoleÄŤnost, a.s., Sokolovska uhelna,a .s., Carbounion Bohemia, s.r.o. and CEZ, a. s., have just established a new joint-stock company Coal Energy, a.s. which will trade part of electricity generated by CEZ-operated thermal power plants fired by brown coal. Each of the founders shall own 20% of the new company.

All distribution companies accepted the offer from CEZ for another three products included in the "rainbow energy" package. This package follows and complements the first, cheapest product, so called "yellow electricity, which is sold for 73.4 hellers per kWh. Distribution companies used the second offer almost to the full by confirming their intention to buy a total of 7.6 TWh...

A public tender was terminated yesterday, during which the interested parties had had an opportunity to choose from a total volume of 2.7 TWh of so called "yellow" electricity ( the cheapest type of electricity) which is included in the CEZ offer for the next year. This entails a broadband supply of electricity over the whole of next year (a continuous supply of unvarying electricity volume 24 hours a day, 365 days a year).