Commission File Number 32297

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CPFL ENERGIA S.A.

A Publicly Held Company

Corporate taxpayer’s ID (CNPJ) 02.429.144/0001-93

Company Registry (NIRE) 353.001.861-33

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE MARKET

 

 

In compliance with Article 157, Paragraph 4 of Law 6,404/76 and the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission – CVM Instruction No. 358/2002, CPFL Energia S.A. (“CPFL Energia”) informs that ERSA – Energias Renováveis S.A. (“ERSA”) have released, on the date hereof, the following Announcement to the Market:

 

“ERSA – Energias Renováveis S.A., a publicly held company with head offices in the City of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, located at Avenida Dr. Cardoso de Melo, 1.184, 7^th floor, Vila Olímpia, CEP 04548-004, taxpayer number CNPJ 08.439.659/0001-50 (“Company”) hereby informs that it received a firm offer for sale in the free market by 20 years of 60.9 average MW from 4 (four) wind farms located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, on which ERSA has firm and irrevocable option to purchase 100% of the shares of their respective SPCs, totaling 116 MW of installed capacity.” 

 

In this regard, we note that the projects described above will join the portfolio of renewable energy assets and projects which will be object of the joint venture between CPFL Energia and ERSA, as concluded by the Joint Venture Agreement that CPFL Energia and its subsidiaries CPFL Geração de Energia S.A. (“CPFL Geração”) and CPFL Comercialização Brasil S.A. (“CPFL Brasil”) (jointly “CPFL”) have entered into with ERSA’s shareholders, which established the terms and conditions under which they intend to ally renewable energy assets and projects owned by CPFL and ERSA in Brazil, such being considered Wind Farms, Small Hydro Power Plants and Biomass Thermoelectric Power Plants, the subject of the Material Fact of April 19, 2011.

 

 

São Paulo, August 19, 2011.

 

CPFL Energia S.A.

Lorival Nogueira Luz Junior

Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer

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