CaribPR Wire

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Dec. 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Emera Inc. (”Emera” – Toronto Stock Exchange listing “EMA”) wishes to advise all shareholders of Light & Power Holdings Ltd. (”Light & Power Holdings” – Barbados Stock Exchange listing: “LPH”) that the offer to purchase all issued and outstanding common shares in Light & Power Holdings at a cash price per share of BB$25.70 (twenty five Barbados dollars and seventy Barbados cents) has been approved by the Barbados Securities Commission and the Barbados Stock Exchange.

The offer will open on December 20, 2010 and close 35 days later on January 24, 2011. The Offer and Circular will be sent to all Light & Power Holdings shareholders not less than 28 days prior to the close of the Offer.

 At the current U.S. dollar to Barbados dollar exchange rate, this offer is the same as the price Emera paid to Leucadia National Corporation when it acquired 38% of Light & Power Holdings in May 2010.

 Light & Power Holdings is the parent company of The Barbados Light & Power Company Limited (”BLPC”).  BLPC is the sole electric utility operator on the island of Barbados, serving 120,000 customers. BLPC has three power generation stations consisting of 239 MW of installed capacity.

 About Emera

Emera Inc. (EMA and EMA.PR.A -TSX) is an energy and services company with $5.8 billion Canadian dollars in assets. Electricity is Emera’s core business. Approximately 94% of Emera’s revenues are earned by Nova Scotia Power Inc (NSPI), Bangor Hydro Electric Company (BHE) and the Brunswick Pipeline. NSPI and BHE are wholly-owned regulated electric utilities which together serve 603,000 customers. The Brunswick Pipeline is a 145 km gas pipeline in New Brunswick. Emera also owns 19% of St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited, which serves more than 50,000 customers on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, 25% of Grand Bahama Power Company which serves 19,000 customers on the Caribbean island of Grand Bahama and 38% of Light & Power Holdings, which serves 120,000 customers on the Caribbean island of Barbados through its regulated electric utility, The Barbados Light and Power Company. In addition to its electric utility investments, Emera owns Bayside Power, a 260 MW gas-fired power plant in Saint John, New Brunswick; Emera Energy Services, a physical natural gas and power marketing and asset management business; a joint venture interest in Bear Swamp, a 600 megawatt pumped storage hydro-electric facility in northern Massachusetts; a 12.9% interest in the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline; and an 8.2% interest in Open Hydro.

 For further information:

Emera – Investor Relations:            Emera – Media Relations:

Jenifer Nicholson, CA                  Sasha Irving

Senior Director, Stakeholder

 Relations                             Corporation Communications

(902) 428-6347                         (902) 428-6685

 (EMA.)