The clean energy transition continues to gather pace and scale, despite push back from some quarters. The key challenge is therefore not whether it will happen but how to shape it in favour of greater speed, justice, and shared prosperity. This briefing paper draws out insights from just clean energy case studies that seek to help mitigate the climate crisis and simultaneously reduce inequality, generate shared prosperity, and garner public support for the transition. They include examples of policies, business models and projects relating to the switch to renewable energy, the exit from fossil fuels, and the extraction of transition minerals. While none of the cases fully meet all the identified just energy transition principles, taken together they offer a positive vision and compelling reasons why governments, donors, multilateral agencies, business and civil society should put justice and rights at the heart of their energy transition policies and projects.