Energy sovereignty is authorship over how a polity keeps its energy flowing: the standards, the code, the right to island off the grid. Energy security only asks about supply. I care about who gets to decide.
How the word moved
I worked it out in October 2025, in week two of my metabolic sovereignty series. It speaks in the grammar of capability, i.e., degrees of freedom and the right to refuse interdependence, without treating interdependence as the enemy. A sovereign village doesn't have to make every panel or wire. The decision has moved into the infrastructure itself.
In my words
"Interdependence, in other words, is not the enemy."
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet # 10. On Energy Sovereignty, 27 Oct 2025
"We used to imagine sovereignty as decision against a backdrop of stable infrastructure. Increasingly, the infrastructure is where the decision happens."
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet # 10. On Energy Sovereignty, 27 Oct 2025
Related
- Related Metabolic Sovereignty - It's one of its two components.
- Related Compute Sovereignty - The blood and the nervous system belong to the same body.
- Related Electrostate - The electrotech transition is where it gets decided.
- Related Carl Schmitt - Cutting someone off the grid is a decision on the exception, Schmitt style.
- Related Protocol - Sovereignty now lives in firmware and grid codes.