Meanwhile, other economies, namely the U.S. and China, are scrambling all over the world to buttress themselves against the weight of peak oil.

But in this age of fossil fuel panic, consider that the Danish enjoyed 75% economic growth from 1980 to 2007 while keeping energy consumption growth down to 6%.

In the meantime, Denmark's showcase alternative energy stock, Vestas Wind Systems, has become a domestic blue chip along the lines of IBM or General Electric.

If you're serious about making money in the new energy economy, you must understand companies like Vestas and the national support that has allowed them to maintain stellar growth.

Here we'll look at a few key features of blue chip green energy stocks.

Green Energy Stocks on the Rise

Renewable energy stocks that are worth putting your money in for the long term are:

• Heavily traded on their home exchanges

• Secure in their basic commodity supplies (esp. in the case of solar PV), and

• Look abroad for a significant portion of their growth

By virtue of its small size and central location to European economic giants like Germany and the United Kingdom, Denmark has devoted itself to pioneering advances in wind energy.

Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard told a gathering of offshore wind energy heavy-hitters in Berlin last December that her country's wind energy industry has delivered 90 percent of the world's total installed offshore capacity.

Vestas, in turn, has enjoyed remarkable and unfettered growth. Vestas has been able to boost its earnings at a terrific pace, rising from 201 million euros in 2006 to 443 million euros in 2007... that's a 120% increase!

Take a gander at Vestas's Copenhagen share price over the past five years:

And from March 1998 to March 2008, Vestas's share price logged a 1,695% gain!

This is exactly the green energy blue chip stuff I'm talking about.

And there's plenty more where this came from, if you know where to look and what sinkholes to avoid.

Day Traders Don't Get Green

One of the worst things to hit many true investors' opinions of green energy stocks is the amount of volatility that we're seeing in today's overall market (the Chicago Board of Options Exchange Volatility Index keeps setting higher support levels), and the added factor that thinly-traded energy startups on the OTC and pink sheets are often subject to the whims of day traders.

Many of these chart jockeys don't understand a tenth of what goes into building a renewable energy company, so shares get tossed to and fro and unwitting buyers can get stuck with dud shares that are almost impossible to get rid of.

What's worse, some traders whose first fortunes were made in the dot-com boom have a tendency to blend clean energy technology stocks with computer-based tech companies. That means that from time to time clean energy companies that supply the core micromechanical elements of things like wind turbines and solar panels get dragged down with shabby news in the semiconductor industry.

Don't get me wrong—the cleantech overlap can be very real, like with the increasing competition between solar panel manufacturers for silicon supply, which of course is also key to microchips.

In most scenarios, however, someone rings a "tech" bell and these dogs salivate, getting their 5% in-and-out trade and leaving chaos in their wake.

If you're in it for long-term appreciation and know how real the worldwide renewable energy bull market is, you want to go abroad where government's like Denmark's and Germany's are sowing the seeds of green energy independence and economic health.

The most promising trend today, in fact, is the systematic reduction of government subsidies in these countries where price guarantees for clean energy producers has stimulated the growth of Vestas and others.

We're now seeing that mold stripped away, leaving strong companies like Vestas that are fit for a new energy age.

Regards,

Sam Hopkins

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