Tennessee Valley Authority

We are pleased to present our report for the period October 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024. Serving in our oversight role, the Office of the Inspector General continues to identify risks to operations, ways to save or recover money, make recommendations to improve operations, and prevent and detect...

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Emergency Preparedness and Operations (EOP) standard 011-2, was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on August 24, 2021, with an effective date of April 1, 2023. EOP-011-2 includes a requirement to implement and maintain a cold...

The Office of the Inspector General evaluated whether TVA’s quality management process for the Colbert Combustion Turbine expansion project was accomplished in a manner to achieve compliance with quality objectives and acceptance criteria. We determine quality management was accomplished by the...

Land use agreements are contracts that permit operators to use specific Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reservoir property for a specific purpose and for a limited amount of time, subject to management and control retained by TVA. Reservoir land use agreements are typically for commercial...

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Emergency Preparedness and Operations (EOP) standard 011-2, was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on August 24, 2021, with an effective date of April 1, 2023. EOP-011-2 includes a requirement to implement and maintain a cold...

The Office of the Inspector General performed an audit of a TVA hydroelectric facility to determine if the network architecture and assets in use to support site business and operations were compliant with TVA policies, procedures, and identified best practices. We determined several areas of the...

We performed an audit of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) invoice review and approval process to (1) assess TVA's policies and procedures related to the review and approval of invoices, (2) determine compliance with applicable policies and procedures, and (3) determine if TVA's invoice...

As part of our annual audit plan, we performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by The Steam Generating Team, LLC for steam generator replacement services under Contract No. 11144. Our audit objective was to determine if the craft labor and project closeout costs...

As part of our annual audit plan, we performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI) for pharmacy benefits management services under Contract No. 11023. Our audit objective was to determine if costs were billed in accordance with the terms of...

As part of our annual audit plan, we performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by America Fujikura Ltd. dba AFL Telecommunications LLC (AFL) for optical ground wire cable (OPGW) and hardware under Contract Nos. 12674 & 15270. Our audit objective was to determine if...