Green Boom’s Hottest 2021 Trade May Turn Out to Be Utilities
- Renewable energy shares are increasingly seen as fairly valued
- Utilities may be the more attractive for clean power moves
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After a bumper year for Europe’s renewable-energy stocks, underappreciated utilities shares are now gaining support from the market as 2021’s hot sector to play the clean power transition.
Helped by government policies such as the European Union’s Green Deal and investors’ environmental, social and governance concerns, renewable assets have strongly outperformed traditional utilities peers this year in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index. Turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems A/S has almost doubled in value, while U.K. electric company SSE Plc is up only around 3%.