Brookfield Renewable Power Fund Declares Cash Distribution for October 201009:27 EDT Tuesday, October 19, 2010 GATINEAU, QC, Oct. 19 /CNW Telbec/ - (BRC.UN) - Brookfield Renewable Power Fund (the "Fund") today declared a cash distribution of 10.833 cents per unit for the month of October 2010, payable by November 30, 2010, to unitholders of record on October 31, 2010. The ex-distribution date is October 27, 2010. The schedule below sets out the Fund's cash distribution history for the last six months: _____________________________________________________________ | RECORD DATE | PAYMENT DATE |DISTRIBUTION PER UNIT| |___________________|___________________|_____________________| | October 31, 2010 | November 30, 2010 | 10.833 cents | |September 30, 2010 | October 29, 2010 | 10.833 cents | | August 31, 2010 |September 30, 2010 | 10.833 cents | | July 31, 2010 | August 31, 2010 | 10.833 cents | | June 30, 2010 | July 30, 2010 | 10.833 cents | | May 31, 2010 | June 30, 2010 | 10.833 cents | |___________________|___________________|_____________________| About Brookfield Renewable Power Fund Brookfield Renewable Power Fund (www.brpfund.com) is a premier Canadian income fund and one of the largest power income funds in North America with more than 1,700 megawatts of power generating capacity and average annual production exceeding 6,500 gigawatt hours. The Fund produces electricity exclusively from environmentally friendly and renewable resources. The Fund indirectly owns or holds interests in 42 high quality hydroelectric generating stations and two wind farms in four distinct geographic regions across North America: Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and New England. Brookfield Renewable Power Inc., which comprises all of the power operations of Brookfield Asset Management, owns approximately 42% of the Fund's outstanding units on a fully exchanged basis. The Units are listed for trading on the TSX under the symbol BRC.UN. %SEDAR: 00013106EFTo view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/October2010/19/c3560.htmlFor further information: <p>please visit <a href="http://www.brpfund.com/">www.brpfund.com</a> or contact:</p> <p align="justify">Zev Korman<br/> Director, Investor Relations and Communications<br/> Brookfield Renewable Power Fund<br/> Tel: (416) 359-1955<br/> <a href="mailto:zev.korman@brookfield.com">z</a><a href="mailto:zev.korman@brookfield.com">ev.korman@brookfield.com</a></p>