General Meeting of Debenture Holders (AGD)

Companhia Paranaense de Energia – COPEL, a company that generates, transmits, distributes and sells power, with shares listed on B3 (CPLE3, CPLE5, CPLE6), NYSE (ELPVY, ELP) and LATIBEX (XCOP), whereas the Board on July 15, 2020, approved the divestment of 100% (one hundred percent) of the Company's interest in its wholly-owned subsidiary Copel Telecomunicações SA (“Divestment”), as per Material Fact 07/20 of July 15, 2020, communicates to its shareholders and the market in general that the call notices for the General Debenture Holders Meetings (“AGDs”) of the Debentures Issuances listed in the table below have been published, for purposes of resolution as described in the notices.

In accordance with CVM Instruction No. 625/2020, said AGDs will take place exclusively through digital means, according to the requirements established in the respective call notices, with the exercise of the right to vote at a distance, by completing and sending the Voting Instruction .

The call notices were published in the newspapers Diário Oficial do Paraná and Folha de Londrina, as provided for in the respective deeds of issue.

The documents and other information pertinent to the Meetings, as well as the respective Voting Instructions, are available on the Company's Investor Relations website on the website: ri.copel.com.

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Curitiba, August 26, 2020.

Adriano Rudek de Moura

Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer

For further information, please contact the Investor Relations team:

ri@copel.com or (41) 3331-4011

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