Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch
Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch
我们的气候团队是如何挑选出 10 家值得关注的潜力公司的
As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch, the challenge felt more daunting than any year since we started compiling the list in 2023. This year is shaping up to be one of the hottest ever recorded. The world must begin to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to address the climate crisis, which is already affecting communities around the globe. Wildfires, floods, and other climate-fueled disasters are killing thousands and costing billions of dollars. At the same time, political shifts and international conflict have stalled progress, particularly in the US.
当《麻省理工科技评论》团队着手为今年的年度“值得关注的气候科技公司”榜单挑选企业时，我们感到这项挑战比 2023 年首次发布榜单以来的任何一年都要艰巨。今年有望成为有记录以来最热的一年。世界必须开始减少温室气体排放以应对气候危机，而这场危机已经影响到了全球各地的社区。野火、洪水和其他由气候引发的灾难正在夺去数千人的生命，并造成数十亿美元的损失。与此同时，政治变动和国际冲突阻碍了进展，尤其是在美国。
Technology alone can’t solve climate change. But we believe innovations can help us make real changes and improve lives around the world as we try to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time. In this project, we look for companies developing technologies that can help us face the climate crisis. Some are driving down the greenhouse-gas emissions fueling climate change; others are working to reduce the dangers that communities face from extreme heat, drought, or other shifts brought on by a warming planet. We focus on companies that have established a track record, whether through research findings, capital raised, or deployments.
仅靠技术无法解决气候变化问题。但我们相信，在我们努力应对这一时代最紧迫的挑战之一时，创新可以帮助我们做出真正的改变并改善全球人民的生活。在这个项目中，我们寻找的是那些开发出能够帮助我们应对气候危机技术的公司。有些公司正在降低助长气候变化的温室气体排放；另一些公司则致力于减少社区因极端高温、干旱或地球变暖带来的其他变化而面临的危险。我们专注于那些已经建立起良好记录的公司，无论是通过研究成果、融资规模还是实际部署。
When we set out to build our list, we start by soliciting nominations from our team of reporters and editors. We ask experts for suggestions and reach out to academics, researchers, investors, and analysts. Once we have a pool of nominees, we then consider each one, digging through literature, reports, and patents to vet both the technology and the business. We judge each company not only on its own merits, but also on how it might fit into our list overall. We want the final slate of companies to represent a range of industries and include firms based around the globe that are at different stages of development.
在制定榜单时，我们首先向我们的记者和编辑团队征集提名。我们向专家寻求建议，并联系学术界人士、研究人员、投资者和分析师。一旦有了候选名单，我们就会逐一审议，通过查阅文献、报告和专利来审查其技术和商业模式。我们不仅根据公司自身的优点进行评判，还会考虑它在整个榜单中的契合度。我们希望最终入选的公司能够代表广泛的行业，并涵盖全球各地处于不同发展阶段的企业。
We also aim to strike a balance between highlighting companies previously included and introducing new names. Finally, we consider some of the most important trends and events of the year and look for nominees that reflect those developments. The dismembering of US federal regulations and cuts to financial government incentives for innovation means that the country is no longer a leader in climate tech. Like last year, the 2026 list is largely composed of companies that are based outside the US. China is an obvious hotspot for technological innovation across energy and climate. This year’s list includes two Chinese companies: WeLion is building semi-solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, and Envision Energy is installing huge amounts of wind power and energy storage in China and around the world.
我们还力求在重点介绍往届入选公司与引入新面孔之间取得平衡。最后，我们考虑了今年一些最重要的趋势和事件，并寻找能够反映这些发展的候选者。美国联邦法规的拆解和政府对创新财政激励措施的削减，意味着该国在气候科技领域已不再处于领先地位。与去年一样，2026 年的榜单主要由美国境外的公司组成。中国显然是能源和气候领域技术创新的热点地区。今年的榜单包括两家中国公司：卫蓝新能源（WeLion）正在为电动汽车制造半固态电池，远景能源（Envision Energy）则在中国及全球范围内安装了大量的风电和储能设施。
Several sectors stood out this year as being of particular importance. One of the biggest stories of the year is the rising demand for electricity, driven in part by AI data centers. Energy storage is a key piece of that puzzle because it can smooth out variations in the electricity supply as grids incorporate more renewable power. We’ve included several energy storage companies on this year’s list. Energy Dome is building long-duration energy storage systems on the grid that rely on compressed carbon dioxide. Moment Energy is a Canadian company working to repurpose EV batteries for grid-scale storage. And Form Energy, which we also included in the 2024 edition of this list, is producing iron-based batteries that can store energy for multiple days.
今年有几个领域显得尤为重要。今年最大的新闻之一是电力需求的增长，部分原因是人工智能数据中心的驱动。储能是这一难题的关键环节，因为随着电网接入更多可再生能源，储能可以平抑电力供应的波动。我们在今年的榜单中纳入了几家储能公司。Energy Dome 正在构建依赖压缩二氧化碳的电网级长时储能系统。Moment Energy 是一家加拿大公司，致力于将电动汽车电池重新用于电网级储能。而我们曾在 2024 年榜单中收录的 Form Energy，则在生产能够储存多日能量的铁基电池。
A wide range of technologies is represented here: everything from mobile flood barriers to next-generation nuclear reactors. Some of the awardees might be familiar from our past coverage; others are just emerging and may be less well known. We believe we’ve put together a list filled with businesses that are rising to the challenge of this moment. Political will has weakened even as the damages wrought by climate change continue to mount. By helping us make progress on tackling the climate crisis in such difficult times, these companies point to a better way forward.
这里涵盖了广泛的技术：从移动防洪屏障到下一代核反应堆，应有尽有。一些获奖者可能在我们的过往报道中出现过，而另一些则是刚刚崭露头角，可能不太为人所知。我们相信，我们整理出的这份榜单充满了正在迎接当下挑战的企业。尽管气候变化造成的破坏不断加剧，但政治意愿却有所减弱。在如此艰难的时刻，这些公司通过帮助我们在应对气候危机方面取得进展，为我们指明了更好的前进方向。