--- title: Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising... description: MIT Technology Review explains its methodology for compiling the 2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, describing how reporters solicit nominations, vet... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/here-s-how-our-climate-team-picked-10-promising-companies-to-watch-msqgeasr1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch | daily.dev og:description: MIT Technology Review explains its methodology for compiling the 2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, describing how reporters solicit nominations, vet... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/here-s-how-our-climate-team-picked-10-promising-companies-to-watch-msqgeasr1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/msqgeASr1.png og:image:alt: Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT Technology Review explains its methodology for compiling the 2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, describing how reporters solicit nominations, vet technology and business track records, and balance industry diversity and global representation. The 2026 list skews heavily toward non-US companies amid rollbacks of US climate regulations and incentives, featuring Chinese firms WeLion (semi-solid-state batteries) and Envision Energy (wind power and storage), alongside energy storage companies Energy Dome (CO2-based storage), Moment Energy (repurposed EV batteries), and Form Energy (iron-based batteries), reflecting rising electricity demand driven partly by AI data centers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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