There is no doubt that the third world countries face many challenges in term of developing their own resources for energy or power generations. Let us explore them in the following section in term politically.

The third world countries lack infrastructure and resources like experienced people and technologies, to not only develop the natural resources like petroleum and natural gas, but also renewable energy resources like wind, solar energy, and geothermal energy. The renewable energy industry requires a lot of upfront cost to start and carries heavier risk of inconsistent supply due to natural disaster or even the mildest climate change. It is less risky for the government, industries, and consumers to keep consuming the resources they are used to, rather than setting up a new infrastructure to utilize the completely new yet unsure forms of energy. The natural resources require delicate processing to be turned into safe and reliable form of portable energy or fuel, which third world countries do not have. They usually let the foreign investors and firms to extract the raw form of resources and import the process forms of resources at much higher price, so they are not able to take the total benefit from having natural resources despite they come from within themselves.

The unstable economy and civil unrest poses much risk to the utilization of renewable energy, as well. The structures crucial to the generation of renewable energy like solar panel or wind power turbine require a lot of space and thus are easy target to sabotage. And if the renewable energy generators are easily and frequently damaged, people will be discouraged to use renewable energy.