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Message from the Chief Executive Officer

Dear shareholders, Three years ago, we launched an ambitious repositioning project to make ENGIE the champion of the new energy world. In meeting this challenge, the Group has built on foundations that were already in place: in fact, 80% of our activities were already in step with tomorrow's energy world when we started out. It was in total alignment with this new energy world and with society's changing needs that we decided to reposition the Group. At the same time, we carried out a major divestment program and an ambitious investment plan. In two years, we sold off nearly €13 billion in assets, while during the same period, we invested and secured €13.9 billion on our three growth drivers. By the end of the plan, we will have invested €7.1 billion in low-carbon electricity generation (including €4.5 billion in renewable energy), €2.6 billion in infrastructure and €4.6 billion in customer solutions. These investments are driving major progress in our business. In low-carbon electricity generation, we will have almost doubled our solar and wind capacity between 2016 and 2019. Our total renewable generation now totals 24 GW (1) , equivalent to 24 nuclear units. In infrastructure, we have continued to expand internationally, stepped up our natural gas “greening” efforts in France, and launched an entity dedicated to hydrogen. Finally, in customer solutions, we have completed 43 acquisitions since 2015, thereby consolidating our leading position in certain markets and gaining a foothold in sectors such as mobility, where the future will run on electricity and natural gas. We have succeeded in this repositioning while continuing to create value. Our financial results are solid. Our financial position has improved and we are now much freer to look to the future. With all this in mind, the Group has decided to propose an increase in the dividend to €0.75 per share for the 2018 fiscal year. ENGIE has set in motion a dynamic of sustainable growth aimed at achieving more harmonious progress, reconciling individual needs and the public interest. We have resolutely changed course, and the in-depth work that has been done will continue unabated to ensure that our organization is more agile, more competitive, more digital, and thus all the better equipped to seize opportunities for growth.

“WE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN THIS REPOSITIONING WHILE CONTINUING TO CREATE VALUE”

Isabelle Kocher Chief Executive Officer

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ENGIE ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING OF MAY 18, 2018

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