Grid Control as Territorial Annexation

Wartime actors can consolidate de facto sovereignty by rewiring occupied power assets into their own grid while cutting ties to the host system. This shifts borders in practice—who supplies, bills, and stabilizes power—without formal treaties, and raises acute nuclear‑safety risks when plants run on emergency power. — Treating grid linkages as instruments of territorial control reframes energy policy as a front‑line tool of war and postwar settlement.