Help / Help to
I want to know the difference between these sentences and which one is better in academic writing:

Solar power helps creating a clean source of energy.

and

Solar power helps to create a clean source of energy.

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Help / Help to
I want to know the difference between these sentences and which one is better in academic writing:

Solar power helps creating a clean source of energy.

and

Solar power helps to create a clean source of energy.

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Solar power helps to create a clean source of energy.

Is a better sentence. The one using the word "creating" is not grammatically correct.

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Taking advice from non-native speakers is not always sensible, particularly if one of their sentences doesn't even make sense!
Both options sound fine to me.
The bigger problem is with the logic of your sentence.  Solar _is_ a clean source of energy. It doesn't 'help'. If it helps to create something, what is that thing that it is creating?

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i agree with Pomy as if used "to" the verb to be in the infintive.

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Solar power helps to create a clean source of energy.

Is a better sentence. The one using the word "creating" is not grammatically correct.

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