Founded in by brothers Tom and David Gardner, The Motley Fool helps millions of people attain financial freedom through our website, podcasts, books, newspaper column, radio show, and premium investing services. Renewable energy is a tide that's only getting stronger. In this segment from Industry Focus: So, I'm an investor, you're an investor, we're all Fools, we're all investors. How do you get in on this? What do you see as the reasonable way to make money off these trends?

For me, personally, I would probably look at the bigger providers of the equipment. Like we mentioned, GE hedges your bets a little bit, because they're involved in oil and gas, and also, they have exposure to renewable-energy sources. So I think that hedges your bets a little bit. The hardware is like, eh. That's just because these companies have gone in waves. One company makes an advancement, and everyone jumps on their bandwagon, and then somebody else's solar panel cells become more efficient, so everybody jumps ship and starts using them.

Then, companies that are effectively adding solar power at utility scale.

I think that's really where you're going to make your money. SPWRwhich is a more global company. FSLRtoo, all over the world. SunPower is fortunate enough to have the backing of Totalwhich is a forward-thinking oil and gas company. They may have upped their stake in the past couple years. As of SunPower's Nov.

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Then there's another company that's hedging its bets between traditional fossil fuels and renewable energy -- Total, a French company. There's just a few to point out. But, like I said earlier, a lot of footsie 100 companies market capitalisation companies are private.

You have to do some digging, but maybe you could hold a portfolio of a few of these companies, little bits and pieces of each, rather than buy stocks in renewable energy your entire portfolio of renewable energy on one or two companies. You can, maybe, buy a basket of them.

Yeah, the bottom line, it sounds like, is that this trend is happening. It is becoming increasingly common in more and more places. Yeah, it sure is. You think about Tesla NASDAQ: TSLA and SolarCity being combined, with some help from Panasonic and that lithium-battery factory.

If energy storage does happen -- which, I think it would have to from renewable-energy sources -- the Tesla Gigafactory out there in California is looking to build more batteries than the entire capacity to buy stocks in renewable energy batteries worldwide is right now. So they're expecting the need to be there. If you don't have renewable-energy generation, you don't need those batteries.

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So they'd better pray that the trend continues, which I expect it to. Sean O'Reilly has no position in any stocks mentioned.

Taylor Muckerman owns shares of Tesla. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Tesla. The Motley Fool owns shares of General Electric. The Motley Fool recommends Total.

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