THE CRITICAL ROLE OF ACCURATE WIND MEASUREMENT FOR WIND ASSISTED SHIP PROPULSION ABOUT THIS WHITE PAPER AUTHORS Konstantinos Fakiolas is a Naval Architect & Marine engineer with over 20 years of 昀椀eld experience in energy e昀케ciency application and environmental technologies adaptation in modern ship design and shipbuilding. Since 2014 he has been specialising in Wind-Assisted ship propulsion by engaging with the very 昀椀rst commercial WASP ship Integration projects, participating in research, supporting WASP technology providers product development and implementing WASP project management in newbuilding and retro昀椀ts. He is the Author of the 昀椀rst global maritime industry technical publication about Wind Propulsion, the ‘Wind Propulsion Principles’ issued since May 2020, which is a complete guide to ship owners, operators, designers and shipyards for WASP ship applications. Insensys is a fast-growing British success story in 昀椀bre-optics sensing technologies. Founded more than 20 years ago as a manufacturer of smart carbon 昀椀bre super yacht masts, and over the following 5’ years we evolved to focus on our core business: Fibre-optics sensing technology for wind turbine control. As the core business continues to grow, we have also continued our diversi昀椀cation into other renewable energy markets using our innovative sensing solutions. Insensys have broadened it’s specialist optics system product portfolio, and now have o昀昀erings and scale of business to satisfy a range of demands. Insensys has proven solutions and capabilities to deliver optimal sensing systems to a wide range of applications most notably in the wind energy and marine sectors. REFERENCES [1] FuelEU Maritime initiative: Provisional agreement to decarbonise the maritime sector - Consilium (europa.eu) [2] Guidelines on life cycle GHG intensity of marine fuels (LCA Guidelines) (imo.org) [3] SkySails GmbH - WESSELS (archive.org) [4] E-Ship 1 - Wikipedia [5] Wind Scan JIP: Wind assist in Operation, Gijs Struijk, MARIN [6] Norsepower Rotor Sails con昀椀rmed savings of 8.2 % fuel and associated CO2 in Maersk Pelican project — Maersk Tankers [7] Wind Propulsion Principles – The Book, Edition 4, Konstantinos Fakiolas [8] [8] Design, Operation and analysis of wind-assisted cargo ships, Fabian Tillig, Jonas W. Ringsberg [9] DynaRig - Southern Spars 25