Lunar power is often discussed as a generation problem. Build enough solar fields, storage depth, and corridor resilience, and the rest supposedly follows. In practice, routing has become just as important as generation.
A lunar network must decide who receives stable power during dust events, maintenance windows, relay interruptions, and shipment delays. Habitat support, repair depots, relay towers, mobile processing clusters, and archive vaults all present themselves as essential. They cannot all be equally essential at the same moment. Routing rules therefore become economic rules whether operators want them to or not.
This is why power on the Moon is beginning to resemble a market with operational manners. Long-duration buyers want predictable floor access. Emergency users want interrupt rights. Public infrastructure wants reserve priority. Private operators want compensation when their power margin is reassigned in the name of continuity.
The result is a utility layer whose politics are hidden inside dispatch tables. Lunar power routing looks quiet from a distance. Up close, it is one of the clearest places where scarcity, governance, and infrastructure meet.