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Clean Energy Shopping List: 5 Stocks with Technology to Improve Grid Reliability

I'm sure you get plenty of "why not..." stocks-you-forgot comments, but in looking over your list of energy storage stocks there is an egregious omission that you must have left out for a particular reason, because I know you wouldn't accidentally leave off EnerSys, which is one of the US's two largest battery companies, and certainly the most diversified. Care to make your case? Thanks.

The Obama Effect: Is Clean Energy Outperforming the Market?

Maybe the best of the clean energy stocks is a company that nobody ever mentions, to my amazement, even though it hit a low of $6.73 in November and is now trading at $25.27, and still only a P/E of 6.21. That company is the cable giant General Cable (BGC). All of the alternative energy plays are going to require power cable, and lots of it. Obama specifically mentioned the need for miles and miles of power cable in his de facto State of the Union speech.

Perhaps it isn't listed among the clean energy stocks because people don't associate cable production with clean energy, but surely if you're going to mention a company like American Superconductor or even the battery companies, then General Cable should no longer be ignored.

General Cable is not only a great play on the Obama stimulus plan, but over the next several years the whole world will be moving to alternative energy and this clean tech revolution can't be done without cable. It is the most diverse cable company both in terms of the type of cable they produce and in terms of their worldwide locations. I just wish this company would get the recognition it is due.

Three Solar and Wind Companies That Still Look Good

Perhaps the best green energy play is a company that isn't immediately associated with green energy and that's General Cable. No matter what kind of energy we're talking about producing it's going to have to be transferred long distances to be used, there's no getting around that. General Cable makes every kind of cable that will be needed for revamping the electrical grid and distribution of any alternative energy source. To me it seems to be the safest investment bet.