Directorate Change

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited AppointsMs Janine Hoey as Non-Executive Director

Wednesday 6 July 2011

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited [AIM/ASX: CFU], a leading developer of high efficiency and low emission power products for homes, has appointed Ms Janine Hoey as a non-executive director. In addition to sitting on the company's board, Ms Hoey will serve on Ceramic Fuel Cells' Audit Committee.

Ms Hoey, aged 48, has had extensive experience in commercial, operations and finance roles in the clean energy and airline industries over the last 20 years.

Based in Melbourne, Ms Hoey currently holds an executive role with Pacific Hydro Pty Ltd as the General Manager Group Operations and Commercial As part of her role with Pacific Hydro, Ms Hoey is a director of a joint venture hydro company in Chile and a director of Perenia Pty Ltd in Australia, a carbon services joint venture company.

Pacific Hydro is an Australian company and one of the world's leading clean energy independent power producers, with nearly 2,000 megawatts of hydro power and wind farm projects at varying stages of development, construction and operation in Australia, Chile and Brazil.

Ms Hoey is also a non-executive director of Ecogen Holdings Pty Ltd which is owned by Industry Funds Management. Ecogen owns and operates 960 megawatts of gas fired generation at Newport Power Station in Melbourne and the Jeeralang Power Station in the La Trobe Valley.

Ms Hoey said, "I am excited by the opportunity of joining the Ceramic Fuel Cells board and be able to contribute my skills and experience for the next stage of the company's development."

Ceramic Fuel Cells' Chairman, Mr Jeff Harding, said: "We are delighted to welcome Janine to the board of Ceramic Fuel Cells. Janine has had extensive commercial and finance experience and has led international businesses in the development and operation of clean energy projects around the world. Janine's skills are very relevant to Ceramic Fuel Cells' next stage of international commercial growth and we are thrilled to have her as part of our team."

As required under schedule 2(g) of the AIM rules, the list of companies of which Ms Hoey is a director, or has been a director in the last five years, is set out in the schedule to this announcement.

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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. Ceramic Fuel Cells is developing fully integrated power and heating products with leading energy companies E.ON UK in the United Kingdom, GdF Suez in France and EWE in Germany. Ceramic Fuel Cells has also sold more than 90 BlueGen gas-to-electricity generators to major utilities and other foundation customers in Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Australia and the USA. Ceramic Fuel Cells recently won the 2010-11 DuPont Design for a Sustainable Future innovation award. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market and the Australian Securities Exchange (code CFU).

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