It’s clean. Solar energy can be used to heat and cool your home and run all electrical appliances, but it has almost no impact on the global climate. It’s clean. Solar energy can be used to heat and cool your home and run all electrical appliances, but it has almost no impact on the global climate. By comparison, electricity generated by coal and gas power plants produces carbon dioxide and other emissions that can pose serious threats to the environment. It’s infinitely renewable. While nonrenewable energy sources like oil, gas and coal are becoming increasingly scarce, the sun’s energy is limitless. As opposed to fossil fuels – which draw on finite resources that may eventually become too expensive to retrieve – renewable energy sources such as Solar Energy are generally unlimited in availability. Every day the sun shines, electricity can be produced.