Ecological Impacts If clearing and using large areas of land for solar power facilities can adversely affect native vegetation and wildlife, yes, it will stop the environment by energy, replacing or reducing the use of other energy sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating climate change. The one environmental factor, such as the downside to solar technology, is that it comprises numerous duplicate dangerous materials such as electronics. But solar panels are the more powerful and predictable basis of energy. And right now better than wind power.