On September 24, 2015, BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., Wilmington,
DE, U.S.A. has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG
that via shares
its Voting Rights on RWE Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, Germany, have falling
below
the 5% threshold of the Voting Rights on September 22, 2015 and on that day
amounted to 4.82% (this corresponds to 27747489 Voting Rights).
2.29% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 13171791 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 1 of the WpHG (German Securities Trading Act).
0.01% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 55736 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 2 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG (German
Securities Trading Act).
0.01% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 68569 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 6 of the WpHG (German Securities Trading Act).
3.00% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 17282304 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG (German
Securities Trading Act).

Please note that the total amount stated above does not necessarily equal
the sum of the detailed attributed holdings. This results from voting
rights having multiple attributions within the BlackRock group structure.

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