The power station is located below the double-arched concrete Devils Gate Dam which forms Lake Barrington.

Water from the lake is fed to the power station by a 150-metre (490 ft) single penstock tunnel.

[3][4] The power station was commissioned in 1969 by the Hydro Electric Corporation and has one Boving Francis turbine, with a generating capacity of 63 megawatts (84,000 hp) of electricity.

[5] The station output, estimated to be 314 gigawatt-hours (1,130 TJ) annually,[1] is fed to TasNetworks' transmission grid via an 11 kV/110 kV Siemens generator transformer to the outdoor switchyard.

[6] Lake Barrington hosted the 1990 World Rowing Championships.