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Gigawatt AI launches Utility Supplier Network and expands into utility procurement software solutions. Sep 28, 2026, 22:30 ET Strategic partnership supports the launch of a Utility supplier network, enabling suppliers to maintain core information once while utilities retain control over relationship-specific requirements, reviews, and decisions. CHICAGO, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - Gigawatt, the AI-native software suite purpose-built for regulated utilities, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Trust Your Supplier (TYS) to launch the Utility Supplier Network and expand into utility procurement. The network gives utility procurement teams an AI-native governed foundation for supplier onboarding, qualification, supplier risk, and compliance while reducing repetitive information requests for suppliers. Utility suppliers submit the same company records, certifications, insurance documents, and cybersecurity information to every utility they do business with using separate portals, forms, and email exchanges. Repeating this work increases administrative effort and slows onboarding. Both suppliers and utilities struggle to keep information current, with the average supplier compliance review happening once every five years. For procurement leaders, the network creates a centralized, governed source of truth across the utility's supplier base. It supports onboarding, qualification, and revalidation, continuously monitors supplier risk, and keeps approvals, exceptions, and material changes fully traceable, providing the audit-ready supplier record utilities need to support NERC CIP-013 supply chain risk management requirements. Through the Utility Supplier Network, participating utilities invite suppliers to maintain and update core information in one place, then share that maintained record across participating utility relationships. Each utility retains control over relationship-specific information, access, qualification criteria, reviews, approvals, and supplier decisions. "Utilities are facing new challenges every day trying to ensure their supply base is meeting a wide variety of compliance and cybersecurity requirements. The current solutions are not meeting the needs of Utilities that supply critical infrastructure that is powering our global economy," said Joe Berti, Chief Executive Officer of Gigawatt. "Using AI and industry-leading data sources, the Utility Supplier Network lets utilities quickly perform hundreds of checks and allows suppliers to be continuously monitored, not just once every five years like traditional processes." "We are excited to support Gigawatt's vision for modernizing supplier management across the utility industry," said Sai Nidamarty, Co-Founder and CEO of Trust Your Supplier. "This partnership combines TYS's proven supplier onboarding and compliance capabilities with Gigawatt's AI-driven platform, helping utilities accelerate digital transformation while creating a more connected, trusted, and efficient supplier ecosystem." Under the strategic partnership, the Utility Supplier Network brings reusable supplier information and ongoing risk and compliance signals into Gigawatt's utility procurement operating model. Within Gigawatt Procurement, the network gives utility teams a centralized point of control for relationship-specific requirements, reviews, approvals, and procurement decisions through traceable workflows. Through Gigawatt's Utility Data Fabric, that supplier context can inform planning, sourcing, contracting, purchasing, delivery, invoicing, and third-party oversight. Existing planning, ERP, EAM, sourcing, and accounts payable systems remain in place. The Utility Supplier Network is designed for material and equipment suppliers, EPC and service providers, and data and technology partners that support utility operations, capital programs, and modernization. Access begins by invitation from participating utilities. Invited suppliers can establish or connect a profile, share maintained information, and complete the requirements specific to each utility relationship. Media Contact SOURCE Gigawatt