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Room for Profits in the Clean Energy Business

I am still very keen and excited on the energy industry. There's lots of opportunities to make a lot of money but avoiding the potential land mines that still exist in the solar, wind, stored energy and natural gas plays, can be very stressful. However, that's where the safety of exchange-traded funds comes in. Although all exchanged-traded funds can be volatile, many positions in these funds are researched exhaustively before they are included in the respective indexes that they track, making these funds a good candidate for an investment. I am not recommending any particular fund, although I may be impartial to a few out there. I believe that investors still need to be very patient until many of the heavily subsidized sectors in this industry to bear fruit. One could start by taking a look at Invesco's  PowerShares Wilderhill Progressive Energy Portfolio , which is based on the Wilderhill Progressive Energy Index . The index is composed of companies focused on the fol