Webcast Alert: Companhia de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista (CTEEP) Announces 1st Quarter 2010 Results Webcast

SAO PAULO, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Companhia de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista (CTEEP) (Bovespa: TRPL3; TRPL4) (CTEEP) announces the following Webcast:

Contact:  Marcio Lopes Almeida (Chief Financial and IR Officer), Diogo Zinsly (IR Manager) or Thiago Lopes da Silva (IR Senior Analyst) from Companhia de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista (CTEEP), +55 (11) 3138-7557, or e-mail, [email protected]

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at http://www.cteep.com.br/ir .  To access the replay, click on the Investor Relations section.

CTEEP is listed on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) and, since 2002, has adhered to Level 1 of Bovespa's Corporate Governance.  Its preferred shares are a component of the Ibovespa stock index, the most important indicator of average share prices in the Brazilian stock market.  The Company also has an American Depositary Receipts – ADR Program under SEC Rule 144A in the United States. The depositary bank for the ADRs is the Bank of New York Mellon while Banco Itau is the custodian bank.

Companhia de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista (CTEEP) is majority owned by the ISA Group, one of the leading players in the electricity transmission sector in Latin America.

CTEEP is the largest private sector electricity transmission concessionaire in Brazil, accounting for the transmission of 30% of all the energy produced in the country and 60% of the energy consumed in Brazil's Southeastern region.  

With installed capacity of 43,223 MVA, CTEEP is responsible for the transmission of 100% of the electricity consumed in the state of Sao Paulo, a state that accounts for 30% of Brazil's total GDP.  The excellence of the Company's customer service is guaranteed by a complex infrastructure of 12,271 km of transmission lines, 18,698 of transmission circuits, 105 substations with tensions of up to 550 kV and 2,488 km of optic fiber cable.

SOURCE Companhia de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista (CTEEP)