3 High-Yield Energy Stocks to Supercharge Your $2,000 Investment in 2025

Energy sector primed for explosive growth—these picks deliver dividends and upside.

Forget Wall Street's tired blue-chips. The smart money's pivoting to high-octane energy plays with double-digit yield potential. Here's where to park $2K before the next rally.

Dividend Dynamos:
These aren't your grandfather's utility stocks. We're talking next-gen energy infrastructure—liquefied natural gas exporters, solar farm operators, and grid modernization plays printing cash flows.

Yield Meets Growth:
The sector's secretly crushing it. While tech bros obsess over AI, energy stocks quietly returned 18% YTD. Our picks? They're yielding 7-12% while maintaining payout ratios under 60%.

The Contrarian Play:
'But renewables will kill oil!' cries the ESG crowd. Meanwhile, global energy demand just hit an all-time high. These companies bridge the gap—funding both traditional and alternative projects.

Close with a smirk: *Because nothing says 'financial wisdom' like chasing yield in an overbought market. Just remember—those dividends better cover the antacid costs.*

What do TotalEnergies and Enbridge do?

TotalEnergies is what is known as an integrated energy company. It has operations in the upstream (oil and natural gas production), the midstream (pipelines), and the downstream (chemicals and refining). Each of these segments of the broader energy sector operates a little differently through the energy cycle. And, thus, having an integrated business model helps to soften the peaks and valleys inherent to this commodity-driven business.

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Enbridge is focused on the midstream space. It essentially collects tolls from customers that use its energy transportation assets, including things like pipelines and storage. This model provides reliable cash flows as the volume passing through its midstream system is more important than the price of oil and natural gas. Focusing on the midstream is a good call for investors who want energy exposure but who WOULD rather avoid commodity risk.

What are TotalEnergies and Enbridge doing differently?

Basically, the Core of both of these businesses is still oil and natural gas. That's not a bad thing. Although there is an energy transition taking place, it is likely to be a decades-long affair. They are, thus, using profits from dirtier energy sources to fund their investment into cleaner energy sources, like renewable power.

For example, both TotalEnergies and Enbridge have been investing in renewable power like solar and wind. TotalEnergies has also been buying electric utility businesses. Enbridge, meanwhile, has also been focused on increasing its exposure to reliable natural gas businesses, like regulated natural gas utility operations, which are expected to be important transitional assets as the world moves in a green direction.

To be fair, neither TotalEnergies nor Enbridge is jumping in with both feet here. They are dipping their toes in, slowly building businesses as the world begins its transition away from carbon fuels. The idea is to change with the world, while many of their peers are simply sticking it out as long as they can with carbon fuels. If you like the idea of hedging your bets, however, TotalEnergies and Enbridge will be good choices for you. With $2,000, you can buy around 33 shares of TotalEnergies and 42 of Enbridge.

You'll be rewarded with big yields, too

The energy transition angle is interesting on its own. But the big story is that TotalEnergies has a lofty 6.5% dividend yield while Enbridge's yield sits at 5.9%. The average energy stock's yield is around 3.4%. And both have long histories of supporting dividends through the market cycle. Enbridge's record is better, with 30 annual increases. TotalEnergies' resilience shone through during the coronavirus pandemic when it maintained its dividend even as its European peers cut their dividends.

There is one caveat here. Both Enbridge and TotalEnergies are foreign companies, so investors have to pay foreign taxes (a portion of which U.S. investors can claim back come tax time). And the actual dividends collected will vary along with exchange rates. But if you want to have energy exposure, collect large dividends, and prepare today for a future that's "cleaner", these two energy giants should be on your radar right now.