Dynegy Sells Remaining UK Natural Gas Storage Business to Centrica For $500 Million.

Business/Energy Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2002

Dynegy Inc. (NYSE:DYN) today announced that it has sold its remaining Dynegy Storage assets in the United Kingdom to Centrica plc. Under the terms of the purchase agreement, which was executed today, a subsidiary of Centrica paid approximately $500 million for the subsidiaries that own Rough, an offshore partially depleted natural gas field in the North Sea, and Easington, a natural gas processing terminal located on the East Yorkshire coast.

"The storage business sale is yet another significant accomplishment in our capital plan, which continues to improve our liquidity and enable us to focus on our core businesses going forward," said Bruce Williamson, president and chief executive officer of Dynegy Inc. "When combined with the steps we are taking to restructure the organization and address the company's financial obligations, we are continuing to build momentum for the new Dynegy and drive the company forward."

Following the September 2002 sale of Dynegy Hornsea to SSE Energy Supply Limited, a unit of Scottish and Southern Energy plc., for approximately $200 million, the remaining Dynegy Storage assets included Rough and Easington. Rough is the major provider of natural gas storage in the UK and is used by approximately half of the country's natural gas shippers. It has a deliverability rate of 1.5 billion cubic feet per day and a total customer storage capacity of 100 billion cubic feet of natural gas. The Easington terminal processes Rough and third-party natural gas streams for delivery into the UK natural gas transportation network. Centrica will employ substantially all of Dynegy Storage's employees.

The sale is consistent with Dynegy's previously announced plans to execute a sale or joint venture transaction involving its UK gas storage assets in connection with its ongoing capital and liquidity plan. Dynegy Europe Limited now consists of energy marketing and trading. The company's previously announced restructuring initiative will involve an exit from this business in the United States, Europe and Canada over the next three to six months. Mike Flinn, currently president of Dynegy Europe, will manage the exit in Europe, which is expected to reduce the company's collateral requirements and overall corporate expenses.

ABN AMRO acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Dynegy in this transaction.

Dynegy Inc. produces and delivers energy, including natural gas, power, natural gas liquids and coal through its owned and contractually controlled network of physical assets. The company serves customers by aggregating production and supply and delivering value-added solutions to meet their energy needs.

Certain statements included in this news release are intended as "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include assumptions, expectations, predictions, intentions or beliefs about future events. Dynegy cautions that actual future results may vary materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. Some of the key factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from those expected include changes in commodity prices for power, natural gas or natural gas liquids; Dynegy's ability to successfully execute the remaining elements of its capital and liquidity plan and its exit from third party risk management aspects of the marketing and trading business; the effect of Dynegy's recently announced organizational changes and management's ability to operate its remaining assets and businesses in a decentralized structure and with a reduced work force; operational factors affecting Dynegy's assets; the availability and increased costs of credit and borrowing resulting from Dynegy's weakened financial condition and non-investment grade credit ratings; the results of the re-audit of Dynegy's 1999-2001 financial statements, which could cause material changes to Dynegy's reported financial results for the applicable periods; the demand for and pricing of services offered by Dynegy's telecommunications business; and uncertainties regarding environmental regulations or litigation and other legal or regulatory developments affecting Dynegy's business, including litigation relating to the California power market and shareholder claims, as well as the ongoing regulatory investigations primarily relating to Project Alpha and trading practices. More information about the risks and uncertainties relating to these forward-looking statements are found in Dynegy's SEC filings, which are available free of charge on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov.