Energy Transition, AI, and Geopolitics

Beyond the Grid: What Haiti’s Mesh Grid Success Teaches Us About Infrastructure Resilience

Conventional wisdom dictates that large-scale infrastructure requires absolute political stability and centralized planning. The rapid deployment of solar “mesh grids” in rural Haiti turns this assumption on its head. By connecting small clusters of homes via localized nodes, energy developers have bypassed the capital-intensive, slow-moving requirements of traditional grid extensions. The broader takeaway for the […]

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