RWE Aktiengesellschaft: Release of a capital market information

Notification in accordance with Article 5, Paragraph 3 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and Article 2, Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 - share buyback tranche 2

On 7 November 2017, RWE Aktiengesellschaft commenced the share buyback started by way of the notification of 25 August 2017 in accordance with Article 5, Paragraph 1(a) of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and Article 2, Paragraph 1 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052. In a second tranche, a total of 134.420 shares (ISIN DE0007037129 (common shares)), corresponding to 0.021866% of the company's capital stock were bought back in the period from 13 November 2017 to 15 November 2017. The average purchase price paid on the stock market was EUR 21.5402. The company bought back shares for a total price of EUR 2,895,439.64 (excluding ancillary costs) in the second tranche.

The acquisition of the shares served the sole purpose of fulfilling obligations relating to an employee stock option plan within the meaning of Article 5, Paragraph 2(c).

The buyback was implemented via the XETRA trading system of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the lead of a bank which decided on the timing of the acquisition of the shares independently of RWE Aktiengesellschaft.

In the period from 13 November 2017 to 15 November 2017, the daily number of shares bought back, weighted average share price and aggregated volume totalled:

This completes the share buyback.

The single transactions effected within one day have been published at www.rwe.com.

Essen, November 2017

RWE Aktiengesellschaft

The Executive Board