In August 2001, a contract for the transmission systems was awarded to a joint venture of Al Jaber Energy Services and Technip.

Total construction costs of the project were US$1.2 billion[2] In June 2009 Sembcorp had announced that it had successfully boosted F1's power capacity by at least 40%.

[4] The Fujairah plant has an installed power capacity of 760 MW and it produces 455,000 cubic meters (16,100,000 cu ft) of water per day.

[2][5] It is a natural gas-fired plant supplied from the Dolphin Gas Project through the Al Ain-Fujairah pipeline.

284,000 cubic meters per day (10,000,000 cu ft/d) of water is produced using multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) technology and 171,000 cubic meters per day (6,000,000 cu ft/d) of water is produced using reverse osmosis technology (RO).