[1] It was constructed between 1954 and 1960 on a riverside site originally acquired by the West Kent Electric Company in 1919.

The main building was a steel framed structure with the turbine hall to the west and the taller boiler house to the east and the control room in the centre of the block.

[1] Advances in technology meant that the second half of the station, commissioned in 1961–2, was equipped with two high pressure boilers rated at 1,600,000 lb/hr (201.6 kg/s) producing steam at 1600 psi and 1010/1005 °F (110 kg/s and 543/541 °C).

[3][4][5] Belvedere annual electricity output GWh.The intensive use of the oil-fired station in 1985 was in the context of the 1984-85 miners' strike.

In 1955 it was reported that four men had been overcome with fumes at the bottom of a 40 ft. manhole at Belvedere power station.

Three members of the Kent fire brigade received the British Empire Medal for saving them.

[6] In 1959 a radioactive iridium isotope went missing from a lorry which was travelling from Belvedere power station to Derby.