Contact Energy issues shares under employee equity scheme

Contact Energy Limited (CEN) issued 667,518 ordinary shares on October 16, 2025, under its employee equity scheme. These shares, not subject to transfer restrictions, will be quoted on the ASX and represent a 0.07% increase in the total class of financial products (excluding treasury stock). As a result, the total number of quoted securities on ASX for CEN will increase to 461,368,209.

The new shares were issued without a cash price, as per the terms of Contact's employee equity scheme, and rank equally with existing fully paid ordinary shares. A summary of the scheme's terms is available in the CEN integrated report 2025. This issuance follows resolutions by the directors on October 18, 2022, and October 18, 2023.

Key management personnel also participated, with michael fuge receiving 106,122 shares, dorian devers 37,195 shares, and matthew forbes 9,148 shares. Following this issuance, the total number of financial products of the class after the change, excluding treasury stock, stands at 994,304,528.