The plant consists of two 208 megawatts units,[clarification needed] running on sub-bituminous coal.

Griffin Coal appointed administrators KordaMentha after financial difficulty in 2009, however the power station continued to operate[4][5] until its purchase by Sumitomo Group and Kansai Electric in 2013.

[6] In December 2022 the Government of Western Australia announced a grant to the receivers and managers of the insolvent coal mine Griffin Coal to enable it to continue supplying the power station over the Western Australian summer.

[7] Community consultation commenced in 2009 for a proposed expansion and the Government of Western Australia approved it in 2010.

[8] In 2020, the owners wrote "down the value of" their asset "to zero, wiping out a $1.2 billion investment in the face of an onslaught of renewable energy.