Instructions to Registered Holder and/or
DTC Participant
from Beneficial Owner
of
Clearway Energy Operating LLC
5.750% Senior Notes due 2025
144A Notes (CUSIP 18539U AA3 and ISIN US18539UAA34)
Regulation S Notes (CUSIP U1851T AA9 and ISIN USU1851TAA98)
To Registered Holders and/or Participants of The Depository Trust Company:
The undersigned hereby acknowledges receipt of the prospectus, dated , 2019, of Clearway Energy Operating LLC (the “Issuer”) and accompanying Letter of Transmittal, that together constitute the Issuer’s offer to exchange (the “Exchange Offer”) up to $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.750% Senior Notes due 2025 (together with the guarantees thereof, the “Exchange Notes”), which have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for a like aggregate principal amount of 5.750% Senior Notes due 2025 (together with the guarantees thereof, the “Old Notes”), of the Issuer.
This will instruct you, the registered holder and/or book-entry transfer facility participant, as to the action to be taken by you relating to the Exchange Offer with respect to the Old Notes held by you for the account of the undersigned.
The aggregate face amount of the Old Notes held by you for the account of the undersigned is:
U.S. $ of Old Notes
With respect to the Exchange Offer, the undersigned hereby instructs you (check appropriate box):
o TO TENDER ALL of the Old Notes held by you for the account of the undersigned.
o TO TENDER the following Old Notes held by you for the account of the undersigned (insert principal amount of Old Notes to be tendered (if any)):
U.S. $ of Old Notes
o NOT TO TENDER any Old Notes held by you for the account of the undersigned.
If the undersigned instructs you to tender Old Notes held by you for the account of the undersigned, it is understood that you are authorized to make, on behalf of the undersigned (and the undersigned, by its signature below, hereby makes to you), the representations and warranties contained in the Letter of Transmittal that are to be made with respect to the undersigned as a beneficial owner, including but not limited to the representations, that (1) the Exchange Notes acquired pursuant to the Exchange Offer are being acquired in the ordinary course of business of the undersigned, (2) neither the undersigned nor any other person acquiring Exchange Notes in exchange for Old Notes held for the account of the undersigned in the Exchange Offer is engaging in or intends to engage in a distribution of such Exchange Notes, (3) neither the undersigned nor any other person acquiring Exchange Notes in exchange for Old Notes held for the account of the undersigned in the Exchange Offer has an arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of such Exchange Notes, (4) neither the undersigned nor any other person acquiring Exchange Notes in exchange for Old Notes held for the account of the undersigned in the Exchange Offer is an “affiliate” of the Issuer within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act, and (5) neither the undersigned nor any other person acquiring Exchange Notes in exchange for Old Notes held for the account of the undersigned in the Exchange Offer is acting on behalf of any person who could not truthfully make the foregoing representations. If any holder or any other person, including the undersigned, is an “affiliate,” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act, of the Issuer, or is engaged in or intends to engage in or has an arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in a distribution of the notes to be acquired in the Exchange Offer, the holder or any other person, including the undersigned: (i) may not rely on applicable interpretations of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and (ii) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale transaction. The undersigned represents, certifies and acknowledges, for the benefit of the Issuer, that, if it or any other person
acquiring Exchange Notes in exchange for Old Notes held for the account of the undersigned in the Exchange Offer is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Notes for its own account in exchange for Old Notes: (i) the Old Notes to be exchanged for Exchange Notes were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, (ii) neither it nor any other person acquiring Exchange Notes in exchange for Old Notes held for the account of the undersigned in the Exchange Offer has entered into any arrangement or understanding with the Issuer or an affiliate of the Issuer to distribute the Exchange Notes and (iii) it or any other person acquiring Exchange Notes in exchange for Old Notes held for the account of the undersigned in the Exchange Offer will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Notes; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.
The undersigned acknowledges that if an executed copy of this Letter of Transmittal is returned, the entire principal amount of Old Notes held for the undersigned’s account will be tendered unless otherwise specified above.
The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned (1) owns such Old Notes tendered and is entitled to tender such Old Notes, and (2) has full power and authority to tender, sell, exchange, assign and transfer such tendered Old Notes and to acquire Exchange Notes issuable upon the exchange of such tendered Old Notes, and that, when the same are accepted for exchange, the Issuer will acquire good and marketable title to the tendered Old Notes, free and clear of all liens, restrictions, charges and encumbrances and not subject to any adverse claim or right or restriction of any kind.
SIGN HERE
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