Rurelec PLC is a United Kingdom-based company. The Company develops, owns and operates power generation capacity in the Southern Cone of Latin America. The Company has two princiipal business lines, such as ownership of power generation facilities on the national grid and in isolated areas, selling electricity on commercial terms and management of rural electrification projects which connect outlying communities to a local electricity distribution system; projects which have been publicly funded by the World Bank, donor countries or multi-lateral development agencies. As of December 31, 2011, the Company�s activities include operations in Argentina, development in Chile and Peru and pursuit of its claim against the Bolivian Government. Subsequent to the year end, December 31, 2011, the Company acquired 50% interest in Cascade Hydro Limited., a hydroelectric power development company focused on run-of-river projects.