Energy Colonialism: A Category to Analyse the Corporate Energy Transition in the Global South and North Sánchez Contreras, Josefa Matarán Ruiz, Alberto Campos Celador, Alvaro Fjellheim, Eva Maria Energy colonialism Eenewable energy megaprojects Corporate energy transition This article aims to define the category of energy colonialism in order to analyse the conflicts that are arising due to the deployment of renewable energy megaprojects in the Global South and in the peripheries of the Global North. First, the limits of the corporate energy transition are questioned, and based on an exhaustive bibliographic review, the category of energy colonialism is formulated along with six dimensions that characterise it: geopolitical; economic and financial inequalities; power, violence, and decision making; land grabbing and dispossession; impacts on territories and commons; resistance and socio-territorial conflicts. Based on this framework, we analyse and juxtapose different expressions of energy colonialism in four case studies; the isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), the territories ofWestern Sahara occupied by Morocco, the Saami territory in Norway, and the rural territories of Spain. The results from this study allow us to conclude that energy colonialism is a useful concept for understanding and critiquing the effects of the corporate energy transition and establishing a base for grassroots and decolonial alternatives in both the Global North and South. 2024-09-23T09:57:15Z 2024-09-23T09:57:15Z 2023-06-16 journal article Sánchez Contreras, J.; Matarán Ruiz, A.; Campos-Celador, A.; Fjellheim, E.M. Energy Colonialism: A Category to Analyse the Corporate Energy Transition in the Global South and North. Land 2023, 12, 1241. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061241 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/94874 10.3390/land12061241 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/NextGenerationEU/TED2021-130035B-100 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI