DONG Energy A/S (‘DONG Energy’) (NASDAQ OMX: DENERG), has received the following information from New Energy Investment S.à.r.l. (‘NEI’): 

• NEI has launched an accelerated bookbuild offering to institutional investors (the ‘Transaction’) of 8,828,000 existing shares in DONG Energy, equivalent to 2.1% of the existing shares in DONG Energy. NEI is a Luxembourg company indirectly owned by entities under the control of the Merchant Banking Division of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 

• A further notice will be issued on behalf of NEI following completion of the bookbuilding and pricing of the Transaction. 

• NEI has agreed to a 90-day lock-up period from the date hereof, subject to waiver with the prior written consent of a certain manager conducting the bookbuilding process and to certain customary exceptions. 

• Assuming all the shares available in the Transaction are sold, NEI will, after completion of the Transaction, hold 20,616,742 shares in DONG Energy corresponding to 4.9% of the existing shares in DONG Energy. 

DONG Energy will not receive any proceeds from the Transaction