The transition to renewable energy is a material fact, as cities around the world decarbonize in the face of climate change and shifting energy markets. Yet the political possibilities entangled with renewable ontologies are less clear, bringing critical focus to the kinds of life made possible in the transition beyond hydrocarbons. Jordan’s ambitious renewable energy program is held up by investors as a model for global clean energy transition, as it mobilized over four billion dollars in private investment through a national-scale program targeting thirty percent renewable power by 2030 and the modernization of the country’s electricity grid using ‘smart’ digital technologies. Nearly a decade into its implementation, Jordan’s energy transition offers key insights into the promise of renewable infrastructures to engender new arrangements of power and sustain urban life in the (post)colonial world. Focusing on Jordan, this dissertation research asks how renewable energy transition shapes the terrain of political action and vice-versa. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork based in Amman, this research shows how transnational investments in Jordan’s state-led renewable energy transition bolster nationalist visions of sustainable development. At the same time, this work calls critical attention to the ways that marginalized groups in Jordan adapt and contest state-led renewable development efforts, forging alternative pathways towards energy equity and environmental justice. Focusing on the contested sociospatial dynamics of wind and solar development at the household, neighborhood, utility, and state scales, I show how ongoing struggles for energy and climate justice pivotally reshape the national project of decarbonization. My work offers an empirically grounded view of decarbonization as an unfolding set of practices that are negotiated through place-based constellations of power, and contributes to contemporary scholarship in political ecology, feminist political economy, and urban studies on the contested geographies and infrastructural politics of renewable energy transition.