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Within the framework of its industrial partnership with CEZ, the leading Czech energy company, in May 2010 Dalkia International sold a 15% stake in Dalkia Ceska Republica and 85% of its subsidiary Dalkia Usti nad Labem, comprising a cogeneration (heat and electricity) unit and the primary network of the town of Usti nad Labem, in the north of the Czech Republic, for a total of €312 million.

The redeployment of Dalkia's activities is completed today by the announcement of the purchase of New World Resources Energy (NWR Energy) from the NWR group. This Ostravabased company is a worldwide leader in the mining and industrial sector. It distributes electricity and produces heat, hot water and compressed air for the coal mines operated by OKD, the no. 1 Czech mining group as well as being a subsidiary of NWR.

The €132 million deal, closed at the end of January 2010, has now been approved by the competent anti-monopoly authorities.

Dalkia Ceska Republika will take over the heat and compressed air facilities mainly dedicated to the mines in the Ostrava region, the electricity distribution installatons located close to Dalkia sites, and two subsidiaries of CZECH-KARBON (a Czech electricity trading company), and NWR Energetyka PL Spólka, a Polish company that buys and distributes electricity in Poland. The company will change its name to Dalkia Industry CZ.

This deal will significantly expand the volume of energy supplied by Dalkia to OKD, especially in the Moravia-Silesia region, where Dalkia already owns a string of production facilities. The 20-year contract signed with OKD provides for the annual supply of 2 billion m3 of compressed air, 1 million GJ of heat, and 800,000 MWh of electricity.

Dalkia has been present in the Czech Republic since 1991, and with this deal it now has 2,550 employees in the country.

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