Capstone Turbine Corporation's Jim Crouse Elected Board Chairman for World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE)

CHATSWORTH, Calif., March 24, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced that Capstone Executive Vice President Jim Crouse was elected chairman of the board of directors for the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy.

In the influential role as WADE's chairman, Crouse will help the organization set its agenda, expand its global presence and broaden efforts to accelerate worldwide development of cogeneration, onsite power and decentralized renewable energy systems.

WADE's membership includes more than 200 corporate leaders in the decentralized-energy industry, national cogeneration and decentralized energy associations, and a number of public and private institutions. Together, they work to advance decentralized energy at the country and regional levels.

"Crouse is ideal for the position," said David Sweet, WADE Executive Director.

"Jim brings a tremendous amount of experience from his years in the worldwide energy marketplace," he said. "He's extremely well respected because of his deep knowledge about decentralized energy systems and the barriers in various regions that slow acceptance of the technology. Those are the exact traits WADE looks for in its leadership."

WADE regularly initiates programs to advance decentralized energy worldwide, including:

  --  research and analysis on energy and the environment;
  --  global advocacy of policies and programs that level the distributed
      energy playing field;
  --  organization of events to advance the distributed energy technology
      market and showcase member products;
  --  dissemination of distributed energy market intelligence and breaking
      news to members; and
  --  communication of the distributed energy message to policy makers and the
      public.

Before WADE, the organization was called the International Cogeneration Alliance. The Alliance was formed out of discussions at the 1997 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change about cogeneration as a climate-change strategy. In 2002, the group changed its name to WADE and broadened its scope to include all DE technologies.

To learn more about WADE, visit www.localpower.org.

About Capstone Turbine Corporation

Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.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 5,000 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 and ISO 14001:2004 certified company, Capstone is headquartered in the Los Angeles area with sales and/or service centers in the New York metro area, Mexico City, Nottingham, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

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Released March 24, 2010