RNS Number : 5468I
  Clipper Windpower PLC
  20 November 2008
   

    Clipper Windpower Plc
    November 20, 2008

    London, (UK), Carpinteria, CA (USA) - November 20, 2008 - Clipper Windpower Plc ("Clipper") announces today the appointment of Mr.
Kenneth Brown to the Clipper Board of Directors effective November 18, 2008.

    Mr. Brown, 56, is a Managing Director of One Equity Partners ("OEP").  OEP has an interest in 15,842,036 10p ordinary shares of Clipper.
This represents 12.2% of the outstanding share capital of the Company.  Prior to joining OEP in 2002 as a Partner, Mr. Brown was President
of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Vice President of the General Electric Company ("GE"), where he held regional CEO positions in Latin
America and Southeast Asia. Before GE, he was Vice President at Inspiration Resources Corporation, a major mining and agricultural chemicals
company, Senior Manager in the consulting practice of Price Waterhouse, and Senior Engineering Manager at SAIC and the Solar Energy Research
Institute. 

    Mr. Brown serves on the Boards of Vacuumschmelze and EMCON Technologies. 

    Mr. Brown received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (with distinction) and an M.A. in Engineering Science and
Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

    About Clipper Windpower Plc
    Clipper Windpower Plc ("Clipper"), www.clipperwind.com, is a company engaged in wind energy technology, turbine manufacturing, and wind
project development.  With offices in the United Kingdom, United States of America (California, Colorado, Iowa, and Maryland), Denmark, and
Mexico and an ISO9001:2000 QMS Certified, 330,000 square foot manufacturing and assembly facility located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Clipper
designs advanced wind turbines, manufactures its 2.5 MW Liberty wind turbine and actively develops wind power generating projects in the
Americas and Europe.  Clipper is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).  Clipper's
ticker symbol is CWP.

    The ordinary shares of Clipper Windpower Plc are traded on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange and are not
registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.  Such shares may not be offered or sold to residents of the United States or
to persons acting on their behalf, or to other persons who are "United States Persons" within the meaning of Regulation S as promulgated
under the Securities Act of 1933, unless such shares have been registered under the Securities Act or there is an available exemption from
registration.

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    For further information please contact:
    Investors:

    Jenny Matthews
    Investor Relations Director
    +44 (0)20 7820 1078

    JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Adviser and Corporate Broker to Clipper) 
    Patrick Magee 
    +44 (0)207 588 2828

    Financial Press:
    Patrick d'Ancona
    M: Communications
    +44 (0)20 7153 1547


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