We are facing a major crisis in South Africa where we used to have more than enough power, 30 years ago, but the government neglected the maintenance of the network, and now we cannot make enough electricity, nor even maintain the existing levels!
Which is more an inconvenience than a problem for the general population, but still.
The other thing that's happening is that while the energy companies, with help / subsidies from the local and EU government, build large offshore wind parks and the like, at the same time the capacity is bought up by large new datacenters from the likes of Microsoft and Google, meaning that they don't actually replace grey energy sources. Said datacenters also use up drinking water for cooling, for some reason.
That is surprising but also makes a lot of sense. Companies go for the already built cheaper option to maintain that they’re going green while taking it from others! That’s actually kind of harmful and they should have to pay for building energy if they want the moral credit for it.
I don't think that's true. For instance, São Tomé and Príncipe is well run by all accounts I've read. I'm sure there are others, that's just one that comes to mind right now.
Does not strike me as a well run country despite their little population.
1- https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sao-tome-an...
They've had a functional multi-party democracy for decades (a few small failed coups, but with numerous peaceful transitions of power between parties and no civil wars.) Their primary education system is pretty good and literacy rates are high. Perception of corruption is average and trending down. They rate well for free speech, political and economic freedom.