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Member News: Leading Scottish AI digital tech company Fennex shortlisted for Best Innovation Award in the prestigious Scottish Green Energy Awards 2025

October 28, 2025
Member News: Leading Scottish AI digital tech company Fennex shortlisted for Best Innovation Award in the prestigious Scottish Green Energy Awards 2025

Aberdeen-based Fennex  has been shortlisted in the Best Innovation Software and Services category for the highly competitive Scottish Renewables Green Energy Awards 2025.  Founded in 2016, Fennex is a fast growing, multi-award-winning AI digital technology company, which is successfully accelerating the innovative automation and digital transformation of health and safety management within the UK’s high hazard energy sector. Its entrepreneurial spirit is now driving industry-first innovation in offshore wind,  transforming safety  assurance with intelligent, predictive technologies and positioning Scotland as a global leader in clean energy and AI innovation. 

Commenting, Fennex Strategic Director and co-founder Nassima Brown said:

“We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Scottish Green Awards,  as this is the first year we have entered.  Fennex was originally deeply rooted in the oil and gas sector, where we successfully pioneered cloud-based, data-driven safety solutions delivering real-time visibility, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation, but we wanted to transition into renewables and make a meaningful contribution to this important energy sector. We developed WindSafe™, the first AI-powered safety assurance platform tailored to the sector, to address a critical gap in how offshore wind projects manage risk, safety, and assurance.

“We secured WindSafe’s first pilot across four major floating offshore wind projects in Scotland, including with BlueFloat Energy and Nadara.  This deployment marks a shift in how safety and assurance are managed in offshore wind, showing how AI can reduce risk and accelerate digital transformation across the sector. Our ambition is to double the size of the company in the next three years, and renewables has a key role to play in helping us achieve that aim.  By turning bold ideas into real-world solutions, Fennex  is helping positioning Scotland at the forefront of innovation in renewable energy and high-risk operational excellence.”

As a leading industry innovator, Fennex has consistently delivered transformative solutions for the offshore energy sector, and in 2025 the company pushed the boundaries —bringing cutting-edge technologies to new customers, new industries, and new challenges. In May, this commitment to innovation and global impact was recognised when Fennex was awarded the UK’s highest Business Award – the King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade,  for exporting AI-powered safety solutions now used across offshore operations worldwide. In August 2025 Fennex won the Most Outstanding SME Award at the Scottish Renewables Green Energy Supply Chain Awards,  and  most recently has also been shortlisted for the OEUK Awards 2025 Innovative Supply Chain company in the SME category.   

The company places ESG at the centre of its strategy. Nassima said:

“Our digital-first approach significantly reduces the reliance on paper-based processes, lowering waste and emissions associated with manual reporting. In 2023/24, our total carbon footprint was 21.9 tonnes CO2e, and we are actively working to reduce this further through energy efficiency initiatives, sustainable travel policies, and greater use of remote collaboration tools. Socially, we invest heavily in developing talent—over 25% of our team are women, and women hold 50% of leadership roles. Many of our employees have progressed from graduate hires to senior positions through structured CPD programmes. We maintain strong connections with local universities, offering internships and development opportunities that help to build the region’s future skills base. From a governance perspective, we operate transparently, uphold ethical supply chain practices, and apply rigorous data governance standards to protect our clients and partners.”

The winners will be announced at the Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh on 4 December 2025. 

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