The power station is situated on the Lower River Derwent catchment and is owned and operated by Hydro Tasmania.

The facilities at the Repulse Power Station are simple and include the dam, intake structure with intake gate designed to cut off full flow, a short penstock which is integral with the dam, power station building, generator equipment and associated facilities.

[2][3] Approved by the Tasmanian Parliament in 1961, the power station was commissioned in 1967 by the Hydro Electric Corporation (TAS).

Pre-stressed cables passing through the stay vanes anchor the spiral casing and form part of the station foundation.

The station output, estimated to be 153 gigawatt-hours (550 TJ) annually,[1] is fed to TasNetworks' transmission grid via two 11 kV/220 kV Siemens generator transformers to the outdoor switchyard.