Managing Director, Andrew Jenkins said “We are delighted to bring to the market our revolutionary software called KLOC. It designs the geographic electrical connections that link offshore wind turbines with a substation, collecting the power before sending it to shore. We consider the cost of the cable, its installation cost due to sea bed conditions and electrical losses which results in the unnecessary heating of seawater. Put simply, we’re just incredibly good at playing dot to dot!”
The KLOC software is based on an evolutionary algorithm. A single iteration of the algorithm considers a small subset of the network and re-designs it. With many iterations, the best areas of the network are kept while re-designing the sub-optimal areas. The KLOC software is extremely fast at doing this, allowing good designs to be found within seconds.