Capstone Turbine Announces the Initial Order for Its C65 Liquid Fueled Product

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--

Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.microturbine.com) (NASDAQ:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, today announced it received the first order for its new C65 liquid fueled microturbine from DoCoMo Engineering Shikoku Inc. (NTT DoCoMo Group), of Japan. The order is for two microturbines for system integration and they are scheduled to ship early next spring.

NTT DoCoMo Group is Japan's premier mobile communications company, providing a wide variety of leading-edge mobile multimedia services to more than 52 million subscribers. Not only a major player domestically in Japan, through wholly owned subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and North America, and in strategic alliances with mobile and multimedia service providers in Asia-Pacific and Europe, NTT DoCoMo Group is expanding its global reach as well.

"In August, during our First Quarter Fiscal 2008 earnings call, I had announced that we had begun development of the liquid fueled C65 microturbine and we expected to begin taking orders," said Darren Jamison, President and CEO of Capstone Turbine Corporation. "Today, we are very pleased to announce that our first order for this new product came from DoCoMo Engineering Shikoku Inc. The C65 liquid fueled product, with a net power output of 65 kilowatts, will provide the same technology advantages as our previous microturbines and we expect that the quality and reliability of this new product will open up new sales opportunities not only with NTT DoCoMo Group but with other customers as well," added Jamison.

Commenting on their order, DoCoMo Engineering Shikoku Inc. President Mr. Shingo Kita said, "We have been interested in Capstone Turbine's environmentally friendly microturbine technology for some time now and continue to be impressed with the high level of product quality which has concluded in this latest decision. NTT DoCoMo Group has always been an early adopter of new technology and today has over 1,000 remote cell sites using back-up generation technology. As we successfully operate the new C65 liquid fueled product, we believe that there will be additional opportunities to apply this new technology within our remote cell sites."

The C65 liquid fueled microturbine is the latest generation MicroTurbine(R) being developed by Capstone. "We are developing this product for diesel fuel, but we are also developing this liquid fueled product to operate on biodiesel and ethanol as the market demand for products operating on these fuels is growing," said Jim Crouse, Capstone's Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

About Capstone Turbine

Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.microturbine.com) (NASDAQ:CPST) is the world's leading producer of low-emission microturbine systems, and was the first to market commercially viable microturbine energy products. Capstone Turbine has shipped over four thousand units of Capstone MicroTurbine(R) systems to customers worldwide. These award-winning systems have logged millions of documented runtime operating hours. Capstone Turbine is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Combined Heat and Power Partnership, which is committed to improving the efficiency of the nation's energy infrastructure and reducing emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases. A UL-Certified ISO 9001:2000 certified company; Capstone Turbine is headquartered in the Los Angeles area with sales and/or service centers in New York, Mexico City, Milan, Bath, Shanghai and Tokyo.

"Capstone Turbine Corporation" and "Capstone MicroTurbine" are registered trademarks of Capstone Turbine Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements," as that term is used in the federal securities laws, about the technology advantages of our products and new sales opportunities for Capstone, in particular with the sale of the C65 liquid fueled microturbine systems. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "expects," "objective," "intend," "targeted," "plan" and similar phrases. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties described in Capstone's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that may cause Capstone's actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied in such statements. Capstone cautions readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. Capstone undertakes no obligation, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to release any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Source: Capstone Turbine Corporation

Released December 19, 2007