- An independent watchdog says TVA needs to improve its operations.
- The report was issued as TVA races to meet ambitious decarbonization goals.
- TVA is not consistently tracking technology it adopts, the report says.
- TVA also is not properly tracking how it saves and secures research and development information.
As the Tennessee Valley Authority pushes to meet its ambitious goals for decarbonization, the authority’s independent watchdog is asking the nation’s largest public power company to bring more discipline to its operations.
Among its key conclusions, the TVA Office of the Inspector General found TVA needs to improve how it chooses and tracks new technologies, such as small modular nuclear reactors, to generate electricity for 10 million people across Tennessee and parts of six other states, as well as industrial and federal facilities.
Additionally, the inspector general warned that TVA is not effectively tracking what research and development records it is creating,