Ceramic Fuel Cells Regulatory News (CFU)

10 February 2010

CERAMIC FUEL CELLS' BLUEGEN SALE TO RHEINENERGIE IN GERMANY

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited [AIM/ASX: CFU], a leading developer of high efficiency and low emission electricity generation units for homes and other buildings, has sold its fourth BlueGen power and heating unit in Germany, to leading German utility RheinEnergie AG.

The RheinEnergie group is one of Germany's top ten energy utilities. RheinEnergie AG supplies electricity, natural gas, water and heating services to about 2.5 million residential and commercial customers in the Rhine region of Germany. RheinEnergie has many years of experience with combined power and heating technologies.

From Q2 2010 RheinEnergie will operate one BlueGen unit in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany. RheinEnergie will evaluate the BlueGen unit for potential future rollout to RheinEnergie's customers.

BlueGen is the latest breakthrough in small scale electricity generation. About the size of a dishwasher, each BlueGen unit can produce twice the electricity needed to power an average home, with the surplus electricity sold back to the grid. BlueGen also produces heat, to make enough hot water for an average home.

BlueGen units can generate electricity more efficiently than the current European power grid, significantly reducing a home's carbon emissions and cutting energy bills.

Ceramic Fuel Cells has achieved electrical efficiency of 60 percent, far higher than any other technology in the rapidly expanding market for small scale power and heating generators. When heat is recovered from the electricity production process, total efficiency is up to 85 percent - twice as efficient as the average among current European power stations.

By generating power close to where it is used, Ceramic Fuel Cells' products can meet the future demand for electricity without the need for huge investments in electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure.

Since late 2009 Ceramic Fuel Cells has received orders for ten BlueGen units from customers in Australia, Japan, Germany and The Netherlands, including a recent order from German utility EWE and Dutch gas utility Gasterra. Ceramic Fuel Cells has also deployed fully integrated mCHP products with leading energy companies and appliance manufacturers in France and the United Kingdom.

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About Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited is a world leader in developing fuel cell technology to provide highly efficient and low-emission electricity from widely available natural gas. The Company is developing micro combined heat and power and distributed generation units that generate electricity and heat for homes and other buildings. Ceramic Fuel Cells is developing products with leading appliance partners and utility customers in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Japan. In 2009 the company launched its BlueGen gas-to-electricity product.

Ceramic Fuel Cells is headquartered in Melbourne, and has operations in the UK and Germany. In October 2009 the Company opened its fuel cell stack manufacturing plant in the Industriepark Oberbruch in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market and the Australian Securities Exchange (code CFU).

www.cfcl.com.au 

About RheinEnergie

The RheinEnergie Group stands for infrastructure services for the Rhine region. RheinEnergie has approximately 2,900 staff and supplies 2.5 million customers with energy and drinking water. The RheinEnergie Group has annual revenue of around 4 billion euros. As part of the "Energy & Climate 2020" program, before 2012 RheinEnergie will invest 25 million euros in energy efficiency and up to 100 million euros in climate protection.

www.rheinenergie.com