Norsepower, the global leader in wind-assisted propulsion for commercial shipping, today announced that its proprietary force measurement technology for wind-assisted ship propulsion (WASP) has been independently validated by RISE technology infrastructure SSPA Maritime Centre. The evaluation was carried out onboard MV Chinook Oldendorff ,equipped with three Norsepower Rotor SailsÔ, and it is among the first third-party validations of a continuous performance monitoring system for wind propulsion.
July 22, 2026, Helsinki, Finland– Measuring the thrust generated by a WASP device is the most direct way to quantify its performance — but doing so reliably, over long periods of operation, and translating the result into real vessel power savings, has remained a persistent challenge for the industry.
Norsepower addressed this with a proprietary measurement technique based on pressure sensors integrated directly into the rotor system. To verify its accuracy, Norsepower worked with RISE, which applied its own performance assessment methodology to convert the measured thrust forces into estimated power savings. RISE then compared these estimates against a large number of on/off tests carried out over six months of normal vessel operation. (....)