Renewable Rides Ep 89: A New Suite of Solutions for the New World: Our Talk with Ember’s Kingsmill Bond on Electrotech and Energy Security
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Jun 3, 2025 Kingsmill Bond, an energy strategist at Ember and author of 'Energy Security in an Insecure World,' discusses the urgent shift toward electrotech. He explains how renewables like solar and wind are outpacing fossil fuels in cost and reliability. Bond highlights the rising risks for countries dependent on fossil fuel imports and advocates for pragmatic electrification. He also explores how distributed solar can enable leapfrogging in development, and warns against expensive carbon capture technologies, emphasizing the need for intelligent policy to lower electricity costs.
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Electrotech Is A Unified Technology Shift
- Electrotech bundles generation, electrified use, and smart connections into one transformative category.
- This framing highlights modular technologies that scale cheaper and faster than fossil-fuel commodities.
Modularity Drives Exponential Clean Growth
- Technologies like solar, wind, and batteries follow learning curves and exponential growth when modular and replicable.
- That growth is already reshaping incumbent energy systems and economics today.
Fossil Imports Are A Geopolitical Weakness
- Heavy reliance on imported fossil fuels creates acute geopolitical vulnerabilities when suppliers weaponize exports.
- Electrification with domestic renewables reduces that exposure and rewrites energy security assumptions.
