Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rurelec PLC
30 July 2007


                                  Rurelec PLC


                            Directors' Shareholdings


Rurelec PLC ('Rurelec' or 'the Company'), the owner and developer of power
plants in Latin America, announces that Elizabeth Shaw and Mike Eyre, Directors
of the Company, have each disposed of 250,000 ordinary shares in the Company to
Independent Power Corporation PLC ('IPC') at a price of 55 pence per share.  The
directors in question continue to hold 250,000 shares each.  Each holding
represents 0.34 per cent. of the issued share capital of Rurelec.

IPC is 99.9 per cent. owned by Peter Earl.

At the same time IPC has agreed to acquire a further 500,000 Ordinary shares in
Rurelec from other shareholders.

Taken together these purchases result in an increase in IPC's total shareholding
in Rurelec to 11,802,721 being 16.1 per cent. of the issued share capital of
Rurelec.


Peter Earl
Managing Director                                  Tel.       [phone]
Rurelec PLC

Nominated Adviser:
Daniel Stewart & Company plc                       Tel.       [phone]
Stewart Dick




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