Singapore of Asia shows how to use cables for network-sharing of electricity.

 The Economist January 25, 2025, pp. 47 ff summarizes how through the use of oceanic cables it is able to share electricity--tapping others' power grids: giving from  it in periods of overflow; taking from its neighbors when in under capacity.

As the magazine cites, there are several such interlocking cable-linked  networks: the EU with England included power share with 6 EU countries; in Africa between Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia; Bangladesh through India to tap Nepal's grid; and sharing among Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and Laos. 

Other cable linkages are postulated by the magazine's editors: India and Pakistan; Japan and South Korea; the grids in US with Mexico. Investors are encouraged, despite fears of some country to reduce a resource it has reason to hold onto.

What's needed to be taught to make democracy work where it doesn't now?

I've been apprised of discussions on the framework of social culture needed to make democracy ingrained into the social fabric.

1.  Knowing and living by the rule of law.  In many societies, who you know is more important than what rules of society written into the legal system for purposes of enforcement you abide by.  The notion of conduct by forgiveness undergurds the system of "who you know" obedience.  

2.  Knowing how to take a position after studying relevant facts on a topic, being able to articulate that position and defend it against those who oppose it is a required skill attained from one's educational years.

3.  And, a course in high school civics covers the mechanics of voting and taking stands on governmental issues.

These three areas of one's intellectual skills are obtained and developed in one's years of schooling K-12, generally.

My suggestion.