Akosombo Genetating Plant on the Volta Lake

The Authority operates a total installed electricity generation capacity of 1,730MW. This is made up of two hydroelectric plants on the Volta River, with installed capacities of 1,020MW and 160MW at the Akosombo and Kpong Generating Stations, respectively, and complemented by a 330MW Combined Cycle Thermal Plant at Aboadze, near Takoradi. A further 220MW Thermal Plant, Takoradi International Company (TICO) is owned as a joint venture with TAQA, from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates .

A 110 MW steam plant is to be developed to add to the 220MW thermal plant to bring the total installed thermal generation capacity to 660MW.

The VRA, through its distribution agency, the Northern Electricity Department (NED), is the sole distributor of electricity in the Brong-Ahafo, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and parts of Ashanti and Volta Regions of Ghana. NED was developed as an integral part of a larger scheme, designated the Northern Electrification & System Reinforcement Project (NESRP) to extend the national electricity grid to northern Ghana. NED has a customer population close to 300,000 and a load demand of about 120MW.