Digital Experiences Built for the Renewable Energy Sector
Your engineering is world-class. Is the software your team, partners and regulators use to manage it holding you back? Vidatec designs and builds digital platforms that turn complex renewable energy processes into experiences people actually trust.
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of Scotland’s electricity generation is now renewable.
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of Scotland's renewable generation came from wind.
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is the small number of UK businesses using AI effectively
As renewable generation scales, so does the need for smarter ways to manage, optimise and connect the energy system.
The renewable energy sector has an experience problem, not just a technology problem
Onshore wind, battery storage, transmission infrastructure, bioenergy – the engineering behind renewable energy has never been more sophisticated. But the tools used to manage that engineering often haven’t kept pace. Seismic impact assessments still run in Excel. Grid compliance is tracked across spreadsheets and email threads. Project data lives in five different systems that don’t talk to each other. Stakeholder sign-off, from developers to DNOs to the MoD, depends on someone manually chasing the right version of the right file.
None of that is a failure of engineering. It’s a failure of the digital experience wrapped around it. And as portfolios scale – more sites, more megawatts, more regulatory scrutiny – that gap gets more expensive, not less.
That’s where we come in.
Read our article on Where AI Delivers Real Value in Renewable Energy.
What we do
Discovery that starts with your users, not your feature list
Before we design anything, we map how your teams, partners and regulators actually work – where the friction is, where errors creep in, where sign-off stalls. For a wind farm developer, that might mean understanding how they budget seismic headroom against a project pipeline. For a regulator, it might mean understanding how they need to track and approve requests at scale. We design for both, in the same platform, without compromising either.
UX & UI design for technical, high-stakes workflows
Good UX in this sector isn’t about making things look nice, it’s about reducing the chance of a costly or unsafe error, cutting the time it takes to model a proposal, and giving stakeholders confidence in decisions built on complex data. We specialise in translating genuinely technical, engineering-grade logic into interfaces that non-specialists and specialists alike can use with confidence.
Digitising legacy tools without losing what makes them work
Many renewable energy organisations are sitting on a spreadsheet or legacy tool that “just about works” but is quietly limiting scale, security and collaboration. We specialise in modernising exactly this kind of tool, preserving the technical logic your team has refined over years, while rebuilding the experience around it from the ground up. Often, using AI to deliver real value for teams.
See how we modernised Xi Engineering’s seismic impact process →
How we work with you
Custom web and mobile platforms, built to last
We build with React, React Native and Node.js, hosted on secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS and Microsoft Azure). Whether it’s an internal tool for your engineering team, a portal for your project partners, or a platform shared with a regulator, we build it to handle real project complexity and real growth.
A long-term digital partner, not a one-off build
From strategy and discovery through design, development, cloud infrastructure and ongoing support, we work as an embedded partner across the full lifecycle of your platform – 18+ years helping organisations turn complex ideas into products that get used.
Read our article on Digitising Legacy Engineering Tools in Renewable Energy.
Our Work
Xi Engineering Case Study
Xi Engineering provides specialist engineering support to a variety of sectors. One of their key responsibilities is assessing wind farm developments within the Eskdalemuir Consultation Zone (ECZ), ensuring they don’t interfere with seismic monitoring capabilities. By digitising and streamlining a critical national infrastructure process using AI, Vidatec has helped Xi Engineering unlock new efficiencies and future-proof their services.
Why renewable energy organisations trust Vidatec with AI
We build the foundations, not just the model – our platform engineering expertise means we can fix the data and systems problems that sink most AI initiatives before they start. We also understand high-stakes, regulated environments: our work with Xi Engineering shows we can be trusted with security, accuracy and consequence. Just as importantly, we design for adoption, not just capability – an AI feature nobody trusts or uses delivers zero value, so we apply the same user-centred design discipline to AI as we do to every digital product we build. And behind all of it sits 18+ years turning complex ideas into products that get used, across sustainability, employee experience and customer-facing platforms.
Successful Client Projects
Years of Experience
Dedicated Tech Experts
FAQs
How long does a typical digital platform project take?
It depends on scope, but most engagements start with a discovery phase to map users, workflows and requirements, followed by design and iterative development. We work in agile sprints so you see working software early, not just documentation.
We already have a legacy tool, do we need to start from scratch?
Not necessarily. We often start by understanding exactly what your existing tool gets right (the technical logic, the domain knowledge baked in) and rebuild the experience and architecture around it, rather than throwing it away.
Can you work with our engineers and technical specialists directly?
Yes, and we prefer to. The best outcomes come from close collaboration between our design/development team and your domain experts throughout discovery and build.
Do you work with regulated or defence-adjacent projects?
Yes. Our work with Xi Engineering involved MoD-facing seismic assessment data, so we’re experienced in the security, scalability and stakeholder-sensitivity that comes with regulated and defence-adjacent contexts.
Own The Shift Webinar
Watch this on-demand webinar with Vidatec’s CTO Nick Welch on making AI work for you not agaisnt you.
Designing Trustworthy AI for Energy Environments
Read our article on one of the biggest, and most legitimate, hesitations renewable energy leaders have about AI – Trust.
Where AI Delivers Real Value in Renewable Energy
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