RNS Number:3459L
International Power PLC
20 May 2003


                            International Power PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE

International Power PLC announces that on 20th  May 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 500,000 of its Ordinary shares at a price of 117.46 pence per
share.

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