GRANT FUND HAS HELPED MORE THAN 100 BUSINESSES

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SCORE offers grants to help companies across England to develop new products, processes and ideas which bring economic benefit to the East of England.The SCORE grant fund has supported a project spend of more than £2.6m to help develop inventions and new ways of working to bring down costs further in the fast-expanding sector.Grant-winning innovations range from crawling turbine blade inspection robots to vessel design, oil & gas companies adapting their decades' experience to put their stamp on the offshore wind, undersea cable sensors to ground-breaking communications systems - with many more grant hopefuls in the pipeline.Between £2,700 to £50,000 has been awarded for exciting ideas for turbine development and offshore wind farm assembly, installation, construction and commission from the £6million fund.Rob Bush, SCORE programme manager, said more than 400 hours of support had been delivered by business advisors so far. Many projects had also accessed specialist technology support from SCORE'S partner Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult,