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Energy efficiency – cleantech attracting interest from investors

Cleantech Is More Than Just Renewable Energy, Investopedia By Aaron Levitt on February 04, 2014 
 Generally, when investors tend to think about green investments, renewable energy sources like solar and wind are the first thing that pop into their minds. As such, these “sexy” growth opportunities often command the lion share of investment dollars. That’s evident by the surge in assets under management in popular ETFs like the iShares Global Clean Energy (NASDAQ: ICLN).
Yet, there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

And in terms of green investing, the boring concepts of energy efficiency and pollution remediation could actual make portfolios more money over the longer haul than sexier solar and wind power. For investors, there’s a wide world of cleantech ripe for the picking……

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While renewable energy does fit under the cleantech umbrella, the concept is much more than just solar panels and biofuels. As a widely diverse segment of technology, cleantech is used to describe products and services that improve productivity or efficiency while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste, or pollution. This wide net includes everything from energy efficiency and recycling efforts to pollution controls.

And spending on the non-renewable side of cleantech is rising quite quickly…….The Bottom Line

Cleantech is much more than just “sexy” renewable energy like solar and wind. Covering a wide range of ideals, spending in the sector is poised to continue growing in the years ahead. That might just grow investor’s portfolios as well. The previous ideas- along with smart grid play Digi International (NASDAQ:DGII) –make ideal selections to play the trend.

Disclosure – At the time of writing, the author did not own shares of any company mentioned in this article. http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/020414/cleantech-more-just-renewable-energy-icln-pzd-fslr-abb-cree-ccc-pll-jci-dgii.aspx

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