It is located some 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Limassol.

Construction started in the 1960s and when completed it consisted of six steam turbogenerators each having a capacity of 30MW.

Heavy fuel oil was fired in all boilers.

In the late 1980s, four gas turbines using distillate fuel oil no.

2 (usually called "diesel" or "gasoil") were added and now rated at 35 MW each.