Geopolitics
The Great Gridlock: How Western Infrastructure Bottlenecks Threaten the Global Energy Transition and Global South Sovereignty
The global energy transition is now facing a fundamental constraint, as the challenge has shifted from a lack of capital to a severe strain on infrastructure, interconnection, and institutions needed to deploy clean power. This systemic bottleneck, driven by skyrocketing demand from AI and electrification, exposes how the Global South's development could be held hostage by the very same legacy institutions and infrastructural inertia that has long served Western industrial dominance, demanding a new paradigm of sovereign, decentralized, and independent energy solutions for emerging economies.
