Sucessful Testing and Validation of Full Scale ...

Embargoed Release: 07:00hrs Monday 8 December 2008

                               Zenergy Power plc                               

                          (`Zenergy' or the `Group')                           

Successful Testing and Validation of the World's First Full-Scale HTS Coil for 
                          Renewable Power Generation                           

Zenergy Power plc (AIM:ZEN.L), the specialist manufacturer and developer of
commercial applications for high-temperature superconductive (`HTS') materials,
is pleased to announce that its collaborative partner for wind and hydro power,
Converteam SAS, has successfully completed testing and validation of the
Group's first full-scale HTS coil for renewable power generation. The
full-scale coil in question was constructed by the Group at its purpose built
facilities in Rheinbach, Germany and will be used in the construction of the
world's first HTS based hydro-electric power generator that has been ordered
for commercial use by E.ON Wasserkraft GmbH (`E.ON-WK'). The HTS hydro
generator will be manufactured in the United Kingdom at Converteam's facilities
based in Rugby and will deliver significant improvements in electrical energy
efficiency to E.ON-WK's commercial hydro-dam and consequently increase its
overall power output by 36%. As Germany's largest producer of hydro-electric
power, E.ON-WK currently produces more than 10 billion kilowatt hours of
hydro-electric power per annum.

Following this significant endorsement of the Group's engineering capabilities,
Zenergy will now begin construction and delivery of the further 32 full-scale
coils required for the construction of E.ON-WK's 1.7MW hydro generator which is
due to be installed into their commercial dam next year. Once installed, the
groundbreaking HTS generator will be the hydro-dam's 'pole' generator and
responsible for the constant delivery of base-load power to over 3,000 homes in
the local area.

Derek Grieve, Director of Technology Converteam Ltd., commented:

"It gives me great pleasure to commend Zenergy on the significant engineering
success that it has achieved during the course of this ground-breaking project.
As a consequence of its efforts we are on schedule to build and install what
will be the world's first HTS hydro-generator at our customer's commercial
facilities and accordingly, we will deliver to market the first of our highly
energy efficient renewable generators at what is a particularly exciting time
for the industry.

On an international basis renewable power generation is garnering growing
support from governments, corporations and the general public alike and to be
able to participate in this particularly robust global market is a significant
commercial prospect for both ourselves and Zenergy."

Zenergy, along with its collaborative partner, Converteam, is in the process of
bringing to market a new generation of highly energy efficient, compact and
lightweight renewable power generators that are set to substantially improve
the financial return of renewable energy production. Owing to the commercial
and environmental potential of Zenergy's HTS technology, its work in renewable
energy generation has already received significant financial support from The
European Commission, The German Environmental Fund and the UK Government. All
these government bodies have expressed their recognition of potential impact
that the Group's highly-energy efficient HTS generators can have on the way in
which renewable energy is produced. The HTS generator that will be delivered to
E.ON-WK next year will be capable of delivering efficiency levels of 98% to its
commercial operations which is a significant improvement on the current
efficiency levels achievable with standard hydro-generator technologies.

Hydropower is currently the most widely used and mature source of renewable
energy and contributes to the production of about 19% of total electricity
worldwide. On a global basis, hydropower is averting the emission of some 800
million tonnes of CO2 every year. Since generators based on HTS technology can
deliver energy at considerably higher efficiencies than existing copper
generators, it is believed that 15.4 GW could be produced `for free' as a
result of their retrofitting using variable speed technology; thus offsetting
any further environmental impact. From an investment and infrastructure
perspective this is equivalent to deferring the deployment of approximately 40
conventional power stations demonstrating the significant contribution to
Kyoto-protocol targets that HTS materials can have. The current addressable
market for the Group's HTS materials and components within the renewable energy
production markets is estimated to be in excess of €4 billion per annum.

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Further information

Andrew Tan                      Zenergy Power Plc        + 49 2226 9060 668  
                                                                             
Vikki Krause                    Hansard Group            + 44 207 245 1100   
                                                                             
Andrew Godber/Katherine Roe     Panmure Gordon & Co      + 44 207 459 5742   

About Zenergy Power plc

Zenergy Power plc is a global specialist manufacturer and developer of
commercial applications for superconductive materials. Comprising three
operating subsidiaries located in Germany, USA and Australia, Zenergy is highly
focussed on the commercialisation of a number of energy efficient applications
to be adopted in energy intensive industrial processes, power distribution and
renewable power generation. Zenergy achieved the world's first sale of an
industrial scale HTS induction heater which is now in operation.

About superconductivity

Superconductive materials are capable of conducting electricity without any
resistance and were first discovered in 1911 in what was to prove to be one of
the most significant scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century.

Superconductors enable:

(a) Induction Heaters to be twice as efficient for the metals industry

(b) Fault Current Limiters to protect power grids from blackouts

(c) Direct-drive wind generators to be significantly reduced in size and weight
    allowing the operation of wind generators in excess of 8 MW

(d) Existing hydro-power sites to upgrade to energy efficient Hydro-generators