Burlington’s first turbine generator went into service in 1914 and was capable of producing 3,000 KW of electricity. Construction has been ongoing at Burlington with new coal and oil units added in 1919, 1922, 1931, 1933, 1940, 1943, 1955 and a gas unit installed in 1962. These units have now been removed.

The three oldest simple-cycle peaking units still in use were installed between 1967 and 1972 and run on distillate oil. Five newer simple-cycle peaking units run on natural gas were also installed in 2000 and 2001.

Burlington station was also the site of one of the company’s – and country’s – first investigations into alternative energy with pioneering wind power experiments in 1930. Unfortunately, winds at the location – and elsewhere in NJ -- were determined to "not blow long enough or hard enough" to make wind energy generation effective in the state.