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Ceres Power Holdings plc

14 October 2016

14 October 2016

This announcement contains inside information

Ceres Power Holdings PLC

("Ceres Power" or the "Company")

Result of General Meeting and Directors' Interests

Ceres Power Holdings plc (AIM: CWR), is pleased to announce that at the General Meeting of shareholders held earlier today, on 14 October 2016, at 31 Finsbury Pavement London EC2A 1NT, all resolutions were duly passed.

The results of the poll on the resolutions put at the General Meeting were as follows:

 
 Resolution           For/ discretionary     Against       Votes        Total      % of issued 
                          (number/%)        (number/%)    withheld      votes          share 
                                                          (number)       cast         capital 
                                                                         exc.       represented 
                                                                       withheld       by the 
                                                                       (number)        votes 
                                                                                       cast 
-------------------  -------------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ------------- 
 1. Authority 
  to allot shares 
  pursuant to 
  the proposed 
  placing                615,534,652         44,013      3,556,610   615,578,665      79.11% 
                            99.99%            0.01% 
-------------------  -------------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ------------- 
 2. Disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights pursuant 
  to resolution 
  1                      615,525,515         45,150      3,564,610   615,570,665      79.11% 
                            99.99%            0.01% 
-------------------  -------------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ------------- 
 3. Additional 
  authority to 
  allot shares           619,063,033         44,013       726,434    619,107,046      79.56% 
                            99.99%            0.01% 
-------------------  -------------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ------------- 
 4. Additional 
  disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights                 599,346,761       19,739,114     49,400     619,085,875      79.56% 
                            96.81%            3.19% 
-------------------  -------------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ------------- 
 

As a result, the Placing announced on 28 September 2016 of 228,603,083 new Ordinary Shares at 8.75 pence per Ordinary Share to raise GBP20.0 million, is conditional only on Admission of the 16,571,428 First Placing Shares which is expected to take place on 17 October 2016 and of the 212,031,655 Second Placing Shares which is expected to take place on 18 October 2016.

Following the recent issue of 270,000 Ordinary Shares as a result of the exercise of employee share options, admission of the First Placing Shares and of the Second Placing Shares, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 1,006,730,924 Ordinary Shares. There are no Ordinary Shares held in treasury. Therefore, in accordance with the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, the Company confirms that following Admission, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 1,006,730,924.

Accordingly, these figures may be used by shareholders as a denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company, under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Directors' Interests

Following Admission, the interests in the Ordinary Shares of the Company Directors participating in the Placing will be as follows:

 
                                 % of issued      Number 
                                 share capital   of Placing 
                  Shareholding    held prior       Shares    Shareholding   % of issued share 
                    prior to        to the       subscribed    following       capital held 
                   the Placing      Placing         for        Admission    following Admission 
Steve Callaghan    3,605,650        0.46%         457,142     4,062,792           0.40% 
Mike Lloyd          783,088         0.10%         285,714     1,068,802           0.11% 
 

Unless otherwise defined, all capitalised terms in this announcement are with reference to the announcement made by Ceres Power at 1.36 p.m. on 28 September 2016.

For further information please contact:

 
Ceres Power Holdings plc           Tel. +44 (0)1403 
 Phil Caldwell, Chief Executive     273 463 
 Officer 
 Richard Preston, Chief Financial 
 Officer 
Zeus Capital Limited (Nominated    Tel: +44 (0)20 
 Adviser and Broker)                3829 5000 
 Phil Walker/Andrew Jones/Hugh 
 Kingsmill Moore 
Tavistock                          Tel: +44 (0) 
 Mike Bartlett/James Collins        20 7920 3150 
 

Notes to editors:

About Ceres Power

Ceres Power (http://www.cerespower.com/) is a world leader in low cost, next generation fuel cell technology for use in distributed power products that reduce operating costs, lower CO2, SOx and NOx emissions, increase efficiency and improve energy security. The Ceres Power unique patented Steel Cell technology generates power from widely available fuels at high efficiency and is manufactured using standard processing equipment and conventional materials such as steel, meaning that it can be mass produced at an affordable price for domestic and business use.

Ceres Power offers its partners the opportunity to develop power systems and products using its unique Steel Cell technology and know-how, combined with the opportunity to supply the Steel Cell in volume through its manufacturing partners.

This information is provided by RNS

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