Tennessee Valley Authority OIG

The OIG performed a review of Monroe County Electric Power Association (Monroe) which is a distributor for TVA power based in Amory, Mississippi. Our review of Monroe found no material issues related to (1) the proper reporting of electric sales, and (2) nondiscrimination in providing electricity to...

The OIG performed a review of Lewisburg Electric System (LES) which is a distributor for TVA power based in Lewisburg, Tennessee. Our review of LES found no material issues related to (1) the proper reporting of electric sales and (2) nondiscrimination in providing electricity to members of the same...

We audited the costs billed to TVA by a contractor for the design, engineer, and delivery of air preheater equipment for TVA fossil plants. Our audit, which covered $23.2 million TVA had paid the contractor, found TVA had been overbilled at least $2,232,780.The contract provided for all work, with...

We completed agreed-upon procedures to assist the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) in determining TVA's compliance with the annual reporting requirements of CRS' Green Pricing Accreditation Program for the year ended December 31, 2008. The required information on TVA's renewable energy initiative...

We audited the costs billed to TVA by a contractor for providing turbine generator outage services at TVA nuclear plants. Our audit included $57.4 million in payments TVA made to the contractor. We found the contractor overbilled or had not provided services to TVA totaling an estimated $281,023...

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is engaged in responding to one of the largest spills in its history, the ash spill at Kingston Fossil Plant (KIF) in which 5.4 million cubic yards of ash poured onto adjacent land and into the Emory River. This report focuses on (1) TVA's initial emergency response...

This review was the second in a series of reviews that will benchmark TVA's performance in key areas and answer the question, "How is TVA doing in regard to financial performance." In conducting this review, we: (1) assessed key performance measures and their alignment with the key strategic...

We reviewed $9.98 million in costs billed to TVA by a contractor for right-of-way clearing and land restoration services for transmission line projects. In summary, we found the contractor overbilled TVA $34,678 including: (1) $28,925 in unallowable rental costs, and (2) $5,753 due to miscellaneous...

On December 22, 2008, a major dike failure occurred on the north slopes of the ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Kingston Fossil Plant. This failure resulted in the release of approximately 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash spilling onto adjacent land and into the Emory River. TVA...

We audited the cost billed to TVA by a contractor for performing preheat and post-weld heat treatment services and found the contractor (1) had billed certain tasks at lump sum prices instead of using the time and material billing rates provided for by the contract and (2) overbilled or could not...