For the last several years, the Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group has been transitioning kitchens at its resorts away from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) toward electrified cooking . It was a long-term plan to be executed over years. What was originally an environmental sustainability play now looks like an extremely wise business continuity move. As I learned during a conversation in Singapore with the group’s head of sustainability, as parts of Asia struggle to source LPG, the company’s electrified kitchens are going strong, and it is accelerating plans to electrify the remaining gas-powered kitchens. I was thinking about that story when I read the IEA’s world energy investment report this week. One of its findings was that those countries that prioritized transitioning to clean energy alongside electrification and efficiency saved some $260 billion in fossil fuel import costs last year, with savings expected to grow substantially this year.…