Today's Osborne Power Station is natural gas powered with one gas turbine and one steam turbine that together generate 180 MW of electricity.

[citation needed] Until Penrice closed in 2014, steam was used by Penrice Soda Products, a soda ash producer, making the power station Australia's largest cogeneration facility.

[3] Osborne 'A' Power Station was opened in August 1923 by the Adelaide Electric Supply Company, which leased 24 acres of swamp land from the Harbors Board for an 84-year term.

[4] The boilers in this power station used black coal imported from New South Wales, but were later modified to burn the poorer quality Leigh Creek, South Australia coal.

[5] Work on the Osborne 'B' Power Station on the same site started in 1947 and was completed soon after.