George Harvey

4 days ago | greenenergytimes.org | George Harvey

Headline News:“Forecast For Summer Of 2025 Shows Hotter-Than-Average Temperatures” • The latest summer season outlook by NOAA shows hotter-than-average temperatures are predicted across much of the country this summer, with the greatest likelihood of extreme heat hitting swaths of the East Coast, southern Plains, and the West.

5 days ago | greenenergytimes.org | George Harvey

Headline News:“Strategic Marine Delivers Two CTVs To Louis Dreyfus” • The Singapore-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine delivered two new offshore wind crew transfer vessels to Louis Dreyfus Armateurs. The two CTVs are sister vessels to Acti’Vent and Esti’Vent, which are already in LDA’s fleet. The vessels will support the company’s offshore wind operations.

1 week ago | greenenergytimes.org | George Harvey

Headline News:“Empire Wind Farm Gets Assist From ‘Heerema’s Workhorse'” • A 1980s-era semisubmersible crane vessel known as “Heerema’s Workhorse” steamed its way over to Rhode Island last week to gear up for its next assignment, building the 810-MW Empire Wind offshore wind farm off the coast of Long Island. It shows Empire is back in business. [CleanTechnica]“India’s Renewable Energy Rose 47% In Utility Solar” • India’s renewable energy sector made major strides in Q1 of 2025.

1 week ago | greenenergytimes.org | George Harvey

Headline News:“You’re In A New Paradigm! Behave Like It! ” • Clearly (to me), the problem holding up dealing with climate change is that the world has too much drivel and not enough thought. Renewable energy’s problem is not that it is variable and needs backup. Baseload power will nearly never meet demand without a lot of backup, and it’s expensive.

1 week ago | cleantechnica.com | George Harvey

Almost every day, I come across a number of articles that claim we can’t address climate change without adding nuclear power plants — or even gas plants. I also come to articles that say we have plenty of renewable energy under development, but we need new transmission lines to get all the electricity they will generate to market; the result is that renewable energy is not being added fast enough. I still come across articles that claim renewable energy is too expensive.