Tennessee Valley Authority

In keeping with its responsibilities under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, the OIG monitored the audit of TVA's fiscal year 2018 financial statements performed by Ernst and Young LLP (EY) to assure their work complied with Government Auditing Standards. Our review of EY's work...

The Office of the Inspector General audited TVA’s controls in place to prevent, detect, and respond to ransomware incidents. In summary, we found TVA management generally has appropriate controls in place to prevent, detect, and respond to a ransomware incident. However, for one selected system, we...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) performed procedures that were requested and agreed to by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) management solely to assist management in determining the validity of the Winning Performance/Executive Annual Incentive Plan (WP) Measures for fiscal year (FY) ended...

In March 2018, we completed Audit 2017-15470, TVA’s Fixed-Wing Aircraft. As a result of the audit findings and public interest, we initiated an audit to determine if similar issues existed with TVA’s helicopter usage. Our audit objective was to determine whether TVA’s use of its helicopter fleet is...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted an organizational effectiveness review of Gallatin Fossil Plant (GAF) to identify operational and cultural strengths and risks that could impact GAF’s organizational effectiveness. Our report identified strengths related to (1) organizational alignment,...

We included an audit of loan obligations and receivables relating to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) EnergyRight® Solutions loan program in our annual audit plan after a review of TVA’s financial statements indicated a significant outstanding receivables balance. As of September 30, 2017, TVA...

The Office of the Inspector General previously conducted an evaluation of Materials and Transportation Management (M&TM) (Evaluation 2016-15586 issued July 27, 2017) to identify strengths and risks that could affect M&TM’s organizational effectiveness. Our report identified several strengths and...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted an evaluation of the Human Resources (HR) organization (Evaluation Report 2016-15445-05 issued September 26, 2017) to identify operational and cultural strengths and risks that could impact HR’s organizational effectiveness. Our report identified several...

The Office of the Inspector General previously conducted an evaluation of the Human Resources (HR) organization (Evaluation Report 2016-15445-05 issued September 26, 2017) to identify operational and cultural strengths and risks that could impact HR’s organizational effectiveness. Our report...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of the Paradise Combined Cycle Plant (PCC) to identify operational and cultural strengths and risks that could impact PCC’s organizational effectiveness. We identified strengths that positively affected the day-to-day activities of PCC’s...