Conclusion
摘要
This chapter synthesises the findings from the book, highlighting key themes linking electricity capital and energy transitions within the global South. This includes unpacking how global development agenda has fostered profit-driven strategies as means for expanding electricity, raising critical concerns about distribution, sustainability, and long-term effects on marginalised populations. The chapter also develops a critical focus on the role of the state in shaping energy transitions through infrastructure development and regulatory reforms, concluding across the case studies that a sometimes ambivalent and sometimes facilitator picture of the state emerges in terms of its engagements with electricity capital. The chapter also engages with how digitalisation has transformed electricity provision and how it can reinforced power asymmetries and data exploitation; and then finishes with an examination of capitalism’s intrinsic connection to waste, where commodity market structures prioritise resale over repair. Overall, the findings of the chapter emphasise the complex interplay between neoliberalism, state intervention, and the financialisation of development in reshaping electricity governance, reinforcing the need for a nuanced, context-specific approach to energy poverty.