ETFs to Stay Ahead of the Clean Energy Revolution April 8, 2021
Exchange traded fund investors seeking to adapt a portfolio to prevailing global trends should explore the wide-reaching impacts of the clean energy revolution.
In the recent webcast,
Keeping it Clean: Renewable Energy in Your Portfolio, Ron Pernick, Founder and Managing Director, Clean Edge, Inc., highlighted five major contributing factors to the global clean energy revolution, including low carbon policies, declining costs, an investment shift from fossil fuels to clean tech, public support, and smart grid electrification trends.
The growth in the sustainable energy sector has rapidly accelerated. In 2019, solar posted record additions of 115 gigawatts of capacity while offshore wind made up 10% of wind capacity additions, compared to 5% in 2015. Global solar panel capacity totaled 627 gigawatts in 2019, compared to 23 gigawatts in 2009. Additionally, global wind power capacity was at 651 gigawatts in 2019, co
Keeping it Clean: Renewable Energy in Your Portfolio April 6, 2021
The transition to renewable energy has been a topic of conversation for decades, but only recently has the discussion entered the mainstream.
In the upcoming webcast,
Keeping it Clean: Renewable Energy in Your Portfolio, Ron Pernick, Founder and Managing Director, Clean Edge, Inc.; and Ryan Issakainen, Senior Vice President and Exchange-Traded Fund Strategist, First Trust, will explore the wide-reaching impacts of the clean energy revolution.
As a way to capture the growing opportunity in the renewable energy space, investors can look to assets like the
). GRID seeks to reflect the NASDAQ OMX Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index, which includes companies engaged in all components of the smart grid.