Tennessee Valley Authority OIG

In 1988, Congress established by law the Office of Inspector General at TVA. A fair question is, to what end? If we were judged on the same basis as private sector business units, how would we stack up? Did we pay our way? And perhaps the most important consideration, have we helped make TVA better...

The United States is facing an energy crisis of historic proportions and when coupled with the recent national economic instability, these two factors present utility companies like TVA with unique challenges. The electric utility industry is a very capital-intensive industry requiring TVA to make...

This report to Congress and the TVA Board comes at a time of historic challenges for TVA. We chronicle some of those recent challenges in the "Special Feature" on page 16 of our report. In many ways, a "perfect storm" has developed that has changed the landscape of TVA forever. As we note, a federal...

Change is coming to TVA...and much of it is internally driven. Undoubtedly, the coal ash spill at the Kingston plant on December 22, 2008, set some of those changes in motion, but the TVA Board and TVA management have reacted with a commitment to make the changes necessary to make TVA better. Yes...

The Tennessee Valley Authority continues to live under the cloud of the Kingston ash spill of December 2008. The Office of the Inspector General is reminded of this shadow every day through our continuing review of TVA's efforts to return the Kingston area to its former state. We see TVA making...

We are pleased to present our report for the period March 31, 2010, through October 1, 2010. The hard work of our TVA OIG employees resulted in almost $20.5 million in recoveries, fines/penalties, potential savings, questioned costs, or funds which could be put to better use during this reporting...

As those of you who read our Semiannual Report (SAR) know, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) selects a theme for each SAR and this SAR is no different. Our theme for this edition is "Navigating Risk." In many ways, our theme for every SAR could be about...

We are pleased to present our report for the period October 1, 2011, through March 31, 2012. The theme of our semiannual is "Managing Change," and our feature highlights the challenges with managing one particular change-the decision to increase the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) reliance on...

We are pleased to present our report for the period March 31, 2012, through October 1, 2012. Once again our theme focuses on navigating risks faced by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)-specifically, cyber security risk. Business leaders and government officials alike recognize the significant...

Power plants rely on operational technology (OT) to ensure the plants can run without disruption. Due to the high risks associated with threat events against OT, we performed an audit of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) OT cybersecurity at a combined cycle plant. Our objective was to determine...