In 2022 many countries adopted ambitious and generous strategies to scale-up renewable energy capacity, through a combination of funding or offtake programs to rapidly build-out renewable power production or to expand domestic manufacturing capacity and supply chains and access to components and raw materials. The programmes were often taken to address energy price inflation and volatility or in response to perceived threats to national security due to armed conflicts and natural disasters. What were these legal regimes? What is the impact a year later? Have projects advanced towards energy justice (the goal of achieving equity in both the social and economic participation in the energy system)?