The project began in 2006 half funded by the Tanzanian Government and the other half by The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands under ORET/MILIEV program.

[1] The power-plant is located in Tegeta, Dar es Salaam and has an installed capacity of 45 megawatts (60,000 hp) using Natural Gas as fuel.

[3] The Power plant operates on Natural gas bought from the national pipeline.

ORCA Exploration Group Inc. was assigned the contract to provide the natural gas.

[4] Currently the government does not plan to expand this power plant due to limitations in the gas pipeline however TANESCO is expanding their gas generation capacity with their new Kinyerezi Power Plant.