News | Scour Prevetion wins!
Company gets award for its seabed protection innovation
A company which has developed a novel way of using old tyres to protect wind turbines from scour on the seabed has won an industry award. Scour Prevention Systems, based at the Orbis Energy centre in Lowestoft, was named overall winner of the Energy Innovation Awards 2011, organised by the East of England Energy Group (Eeegr).
The company has successfully trialled the system, in which tyres are interlinked to form a mat on the seabed around the base of structures such as monopiles, cables and bridges, trapping sand to stop it being washed away.
