"If the defining economic story of the century is the rise of Asia, the defining energy story is the rise of electricity. The two are usually told apart. This report argues they are one: Asia’s rise is electric, and the electric age hastens Asia’s rise."
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/electric-asia/
This is the nuts and bolts version of the geopolitical story often covered in magazines like Foreign Policy: that whoever controls the means of energy production has the hegemony.
