ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that energy transition is not the primary focus of urban governance in cities of emerging countries, which must addresses context-specific priorities pertaining to broader perspectives of urban development and social regulation. It explains why the focus on urban energy issues challenges the idea of a convergent and stable energy transition and leads us to favour the notion of energy changes, which is less normative and restrictive. The chapter aims to stress the urbanisation of energy issues, understood as the rescaling of these issues at the urban level, and discusses why it does not result nor contribute to a greater autonomy of urban stakeholders vis-a-vis national authorities and sector firms. It concludes with the main implications of the cases findings for a research on the urban governance of energy transition sensitive to the variety of issues and contexts.
