Zestiq Netherlands Orders 100 BlueGen Units

Ceramic Fuel Cells receives order for100 BlueGen generators in The Netherlands

26 September 2011

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (AIM/ASX: CFU), a leading developer of high efficiency and low emission power products for homes and other buildings, has received an order for 100 BlueGen gas-to-electricity generators from its distributor in The Netherlands, Zestiq B.V., for delivery over the next 12 months.

Ceramic Fuel Cells appointed Zestiq as a BlueGen distributor in July 2011.

Zestiq will market and sell the BlueGen units to small commercial and residential customers in The Netherlands. The units will be installed and maintained by Eneco Installatie Bedrijven, the service company of Dutch energy company Eneco. Eneco already provides services for a range of heating and cooling technologies, including other small scale combined heating and power products.

Zestiq is part of the consortium of innovative companies which in March 2011 bought and installed a BlueGen in a 17th century canal house "De Groene Bocht" in the centre of Amsterdam. The other members of the consortium include several leading energy companies in The Netherlands: Liander is a distribution company with 2.9 million electricity customers and 2.1 million gas customers; GasTerra is an international natural gas trading company owned by Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil and the Dutch Government; and Eneco is active in the North West European market with operations in Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Eneco is mission partner of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the world's first energy company to participate in the international Climate Saver programme.

Brendan Dow, Managing Director of Ceramic Fuel Cells said "We are very pleased to have received this large order from Zestiq, which complements the recent order for 100 units from our German distributor sanevo. We look forward to Zestiq and their utility partners installing these BlueGen generators with early customers and then driving further BlueGen sales in The Netherlands market."

BlueGen uses ceramic fuel cells to turn natural gas into electricity and heat for hot water, with each unit capable of producing more than three times the electricity needed to power the average Dutch home. (In The Netherlands an average home consumes an estimated 3,700 kilowatt hours of electricity per year.)

Surplus electricity can be sold back to the grid or used in supplementary applications such as charging an electric car, as well as having the additional benefit of providing heat for domestic hot water use. BlueGen units generate electricity with the highest electrical efficiency of any small scale generating technology in the world, reducing energy bills and cutting carbon emissions.

BlueGen customers in The Netherlands are eligible to receive a feed in tariff for up to 5,000 kilowatt hours of electricity exported back to the grid per year.

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About Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited:

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited is a world leader in developing fuel cell technology to generate 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 200 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 and the Microgeneration UK 2011 Technical Innovation Award. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market and the Australian Securities Exchange (code CFU).

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