Owned and operated by Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSEG) the power station consists of 10 simple cycle combustion turbines totaling 456 MW.

Thomas A. Edison helped inaugurate and synchronize this AC station in 1925.

The plant originally had six coal-fired units, which were converted to oil, all of which have subsequently been retired, the last in 2006.

There are ten simple-cycle peaker units, four of which burn natural gas and liquid fuel that went commercial in 2001 and the remaining six are only natural gas which went commercial 2012.

In October 2012, six new GE LM6000 natural gas-fired units capable of producing over 270 net megawatts of power were put into use.