I have to admit, I love cleantech. I love it so much that I suspect that the ideas of the industry may have been clogging my mind for some time. That is why I decided to put an objective stamp in my thinking by marking the stock prices of a cross-section of the energy market today.Before getting into details, let’s depict what is clean-tech and what is not. Clean tech is everything that handles human-beings needs in a environment-friendly way. Today, these consists of especially energy, water purification, biodegradable products, waste management, agricultural processes and so on. As it is an emerging area, there are not enough stocks to show every aspect of it. Yet, there is a great way to see how the cleantech industry as a whole performs: WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio. It is a major ETF dedicated to this field. In the Yahoo comparison widget below, we will observe how PBW shares perform with respect to industry moguls (and key polluters) BP, Shell and Exxon. To compare the PBW index vs. a single clean energy player, I will also track SunTech Power, a major producer of solar energy infrastructure situated in China.

As of this writing, stocks seem to be affected by the general market turmoil. The important thing is to observe whether PBW and STP will rise a lot faster than the big-three responsible for much of the environment destruction today’s earth is facing. PBW is at 21.5$, STP is at 52$. BP rests at 63.7$, Shell is at 67.4$ and Exxon is residing at 82.8$.