The global south stands to benefit the most from economy in the production of renewable and decentralized energy. In the first place, it can be deployed in areas with minimal electric grid development. Secondly it relieves the dependency on foreign oil and natural gas which famously are controlled for political reasons, and which disproportionately affects countries with weaker positions. Thirdly, the ecological impact of production is primarily local: pollution of the air, land, and water does not affect the foreign consumers but directly harms the health and wellbeing of the people in proximity to that production. In the developed countries, ecology is often perceived as an abstract moral issue, while it is an immediate practical problem for people in the developing countries to which the west has exported global production.