[1][3] This resulted in the first unit of the Bell Bay Power Station being commissioned in 1971: a single 120 megawatts (160,000 hp) oil-fired Babcock & Wilcox, single drum, reheat boiler, supplying steam to a CA Parsons & Company steam turbine with hydrogen cooled generator (unit one).

In 2006, three Pratt & Whitney FT8 Twin Pac open cycle gas turbine units were acquired from an existing facility in the US.

In March 2007, Alinta agreed to buy the peaking plant site from Hydro Tasmania for $75 million, which included gas pipeline capacity agreements.

This would complement its proposed 200 MW combined cycle Tamar Valley Power Station, which was due for completion in early 2009, and which was to be located somewhere in the Bell Bay precinct.

[6] The Tasmanian Government included a possible transfer of the existing Bell Bay Power Station to Aurora Energy as part of the acquisition.