Ørsted

About the partnership

Kraken is working with global renewable energy company Ørsted to pilot an innovative digital system.

Based on Kraken's existing tried and tested technology, this new system will help Ørsted to plan and deliver the construction of New York’s first offshore wind farm – South Fork Wind.

Sennen’s software has focused on wind farm operations and maintenance to date, so this marks a new phase in the company’s product development. 

The system will help Ørsted deploy teams performing different construction phase tasks simultaneously without risk of interfering with each other’s activities. This is a particular issue for on-site multi-contractor management. Without an automated system, interruption to work can happen, resulting in wasted resources and delays. 

With this new tool, Ørsted will have full sight of contractor movements, enabling them to plan and allocate construction activity easily, efficiently and safely.

It will be run in parallel with existing processes, to measure potential improvements.

South Fork Wind Farm will be the first completed utility-scale offshore wind farm in US waters, with the project expected to be operational by the end of 2023. It will power around 70,000 New York homes each year.

​​By 2030, it is Ørsted’s ambition to have installed 30GW of offshore wind globally. The company develops, constructs, owns and operates offshore wind farms in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It also has development projects in Taiwan, Poland and the USA. Ørsted has five offshore wind farms currently in construction.

The development of Kraken's new construction tool has received £112,000 grant funding from the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) which supports high-growth companies in the UK supply chain.