May 2026

Bitcoin ETF News: BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has accumulated roughly $56 billion in cumulative inflows since its January 2024 launch, making it one of the fastest-growing ETF products in financial history, and the default entry…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. UPDATE May 27: BLUETTI’s Kickstarter campaign for the new FridgePower battery backup system is coming to an end and they sent along the following couple of…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The US Army has been cautiously dipping a toe into the vehicle electrification field since the early 2000’s, with little to show for the effort. The momentum…

Metso has been awarded a repeat order for the replacement and modernisation of a railcar dumper for a mining customer in Asia Pacific. Metso’s scope of delivery includes a new fully assembled dumper cage with major upgrades to increase…

Komatsu and ABB are preparing to extend their dynamic energy transfer offering beyond trolley-assist systems, with Lucas van Latum and Nic Beutler confirming at The Electric Mine 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal, that a “side arm”…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. INDIANAPOLIS — NIPSCO GenCo recently signed a 12-year contract with Halldor Energy Company to power new Google (Michigan City) and Amazon data centers with…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Washington, D.C. — Today, Sierra Club released a new analysis and interactive dashboard that shows the staggeringly high energy burden low-income households…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I’ve been following the African electric motorcycle sector for almost 10 years now, from the time of early pilots to present day commercial rollouts and…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. At the start of 2026, I predicted that Africa would surprise a lot of observers with solar deployment this year. That was in my 2026 energy predictions…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. When you think about heat pump installation time, you probably think of the work that happens onsite. But what about the days, weeks, or even months it takes…