[2] Part of the King – Yolande scheme that comprises three hydroelectric power stations, the John Butters Power Station is fed by water from Lake Burbury which is dammed by the Crotty Dam in the gap in the West Coast Range between Mount Jukes and Mount Huxley, and to the south by Darwin Dam.

[4]: 327–347 [5] The station has one Fuji Francis turbines with a generating capacity of 144 megawatts (193,000 hp) of electricity.

Within the station building, the turbine has a half embedded spiral casing controlled via a spherical rotary inlet valve and a vertical lift, gravity closed intake gate designed to cut off full flow.

The station output, estimated to be 576 gigawatt-hours (2,070 TJ) annually,[1] is fed to TasNetworks' transmission grid via a 13.8 kV/220 kV three-phase Fuji generator transformer to the outdoor switchyard.

[6] The power station was named in honour of John Butters, the first general manager and chief engineer of Hydro Tasmania.