University of Turku, Finland Futures Research Centre organized the 19th Futures Conference on 13–14 2018 in Tampere, Finland, under the title “Energizing Futures – Sustainable Development and Energy in Transition’’. This publication is the proceedings of the Energizing Futures 2018 conference.

To understand the challenges of the ongoing energy transition process, we need multidisciplinary, multi-level and time-variant analysis of various issues: renewable and non-renewable energy (re)sources, transforming primary energy into energy carriers (fuels, electricity, and heat), energy technologies, impacts (environmental, social, economic, institutional, cultural, etc.) of energy use, energy exports and imports, energy markets and energy price, energy end-use patterns and consumer behavior, energy and resource efficiencies, energy policies, and energy governance. The questions presented for contributions into this conference included the following ones:

• What are the main challenges of sustainable energy futures in an era of increasing uncertainty?
• How to create sustainable energy policies in Europe, and elsewhere in the World?
• What is the role of futures studies in identifying opportunities for a fair, efficient and resilient energy system?