Tennessee Valley Authority OIG

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began taking steps to keep employees and their families’ safe, while also ensuring the agency could fulfill its mission of service. Due to the ongoing...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of the Commercial Energy Solutions Origination and Renewables (O&R) organization to identify factors that could impact O&R’s organizational effectiveness. During the course of our evaluation, we identified behaviors that had a positive impact on...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors requested we review and assess TVA’s compliance with the requirements of Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, in the form of a report submitted to the United States Office of Management and Budget. Our review found TVA...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant (SQN) Radiation Protection (RP) organization to identify factors that could impact SQN RP’s organizational effectiveness. While we identified certain behavioral attributes that had a positive impact on SQN RP, we...

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Generation Projects and Fleet Services organization supports the execution of TVA’s strategic asset plan and outage plans through projects and services, including capital projects for the Power Operations (PO) organization to support equipment reliability at...

We audited the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) purchasing card (P-Card) usage to determine if personnel complied with TVA's P-Card policies and procedures. Our audit scope included approximately $79.8 million in transactions occurring from October 1, 2017, through September 30, 2019. Our audit...

In this semiannual period, our audit, evaluation, and investigative activities identified more than $32.8 million in questioned costs, funds put to better use, and recoveries and opportunities for TVA to improve its programs and operations.

In keeping with its responsibilities under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, the OIG monitored the audit of TVA's fiscal year 2020 financial statements performed by Ernst and Young LLP (EY) to assure their work complied with Government Auditing Standards. Our review of EY's work...

Following the 2008 ash spill at Kingston Fossil Plant, TVA’s Office of Inspector General, in conjunction with Marshall Miller & Associates (engineering consultant), performed an inspection that determined there was poor maintenance of coal combustion residual storage facilities, such as not...

The Office of the 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) ending...