The plant is primarily a combined cycle power plant with two gas turbines (6FA+) from General Electric, a steam turbine from Skoda Power, HRSGs from Austrian Energy and balance of plant from the Europe, USA and China.

The facility is interconnected to the WAPDA system through a double circuit 132KV connection. The plant is designed to operate on natural gas as primary fuel, with the back-up fuel being high speed diesel. The plant is environment friendly and meets the World Bank Guidelines for emissions from power plants as well as guidelines of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency. Being the most efficient plant under construction in Pakistan combined with its prime location in the heart of the load center, the unit offers lowest power generation cost among all the fuel oil based plants and will have lower transmission cost for NTDC. The plant run as a base-load facility achieving very high utilization factor in the range of 70% - 75%.