Clarification on News

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), hereby announces to its shareholders and the market in general that, in response to the news on the website “O Antagonista”, under the title “Ricardo Barros is accused of receiving more than 5 million in bribes from Galvão Engenharia”, on August 9, 2019, received a letter of order issued by the Supreme Federal Court (“STF”) referring to facts occurred in the years 2011 and 2013. In the document, the STF informs that Copel has amounts receivable, in the amount of R$614,651.10, referring to a fine extrapenal deposited in court by a person who carried out an award-winning collaboration with the Federal Public Ministry. The winning collaboration was approved on August 1, 2019 by the country's highest court. The lawsuit, in which Copel is a victim, runs confidentially at the STF.

The facts reported within the scope of the awarded collaboration occurred in the course of the sale of a power generation asset to the Company in the period between 2011 and 2013 and involve a natural person, alien to Copel, who is protected by a special forum due to the prerogative of function with the STF.

Upon learning of the letter of order issued by the STF, the current board, installed in 2019 and which does not have any member of the investigated period, immediately took the following measures: (i) informed the Company's statutory bodies about the facts ; (ii) received from the Board of Directors of Copel the approval, in September 2019, for the constitution of an investigation commission, which is still in progress, with an independent external member; (iii) informed the external control bodies and competent authorities; and (iv) requested the STF to access the file of the process in order to be informed of its entire content.

Despite repeated requests, to date, access to the contents of the case has not been made available. It is also worth noting that the amount referring to the fine was also not deposited in the Company's account.

Copel is interested in clarifying the episode, as well as in the investigation and measures in accordance with the Brazilian courts.

Curitiba, 14 de agosto de 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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