Department of Energy

The Loan Programs Office’s (LPO) mission is to be the premier public financing partner that accelerates high-impact energy and manufacturing investments to advance the economic future of the United States. The LPO received $385 billion in loan authority through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs...

The Office of Inspector General is required by statute to annually identify what it considers to be the most significant management challenges facing the Department of Energy. The Office of Inspector General’s goal is to focus attention on significant issues with the objective of working with...

Pursuant to requirements established by the Government Management Reform Act of 1994, the Office of Inspector General engaged the independent public accounting firm of KPMG LLP (KPMG) to perform the audit, The Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Financial Statements. During the...

The Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General is pleased to submit its Semiannual Report to Congress for the period ending Sept. 30, 2025.

In 2019, the Office of Inspector General initiated an investigation related to Pantex Plant’s (Pantex) management and operating contractor, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS), after CNS disclosed to the Government credible evidence that production technicians fraudulently recorded timesheet...

This audit was performed by the independent public accounting firm KPMG LLP (KPMG) on behalf of the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General. KPMG audited the balance sheet of the Department Nuclear Waste Fund (NWF), as of September 30, 2025, and the related statements of net cost, changes...

This audit was performed by the independent public accounting firm of KPMG LLP (KPMG) on behalf of the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General. KPMG audited the balance sheet of the Department’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as of September 30, 2025, and the related statement of net...

The Office of Inspector General initiated this audit to evaluate $334,425,291 of costs claimed by Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC (NWP) from October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020. NWP managed and operated the Office of Environmental Management’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant under a contract with...

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, authorized $1 billion in appropriations for the purchase and installation of renewable energy, energy storage, and other grid technologies. The Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office (GDO) will administer the $1 billion through the Puerto Rico Energy...

On April 26, 2024, the Office of Inspector General received a complaint alleging that Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) management at the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) approved the transport of a supplemental pilot from Tennessee to RSL-Joint Base Andrews (RSL-Andrews) using a National...