The public-sector reforms initiated in the 1990’s necessitated the need for power utilities to look within their operations to improve their internal efficiencies in an evolving and growing market and a shift to a competitive environment which hitherto was not characteristic of the energy market in Ghana.
The Volta River Authority having dominated the energy market as the sole energy producer since Ghana’s independence in the 1960's grew to be one of the largest asset owning companies in Ghana due to the support structure required to complement its core operation of power generation.
This support structure includes amongst others residential estates in all its operational areas, commercial property used for operational needs and large tracts of land held for expansion and other operational needs some of which has become prime for development purposes.