Energy Transitionenergy transition is a global mission striving to correctmodel narratives a global failure: the effects of climate changeclimate change. It operates within a zone of conflicts, of political uncertainty, societal dissent and ecological imbalance, struggling to establish a zone of consent. In doing so, it touches a variety of fields and discourses that influence, in turn, the modelling of energy technology, its aims and politics. To render visible this hidden or neglected influence—the various ‘blind spots’ of energy transition modelling—the introduction to this volume advocates a new approach to model theory: poetic modelling. ‘Poetic’ here refers to ways and strategies of representing and communicating models: to their mode of being, rhetoric and narrativity, and to the preconditions of their validation. By conceiving of the Energy Transition project as a techno-social discourse with disruptive qualities, this volume tackles the precarious relations between energy transition models, cultural performances and social narratives in four distinctive parts: Transparent Modelling, Technology in Practice, Societal and Cultural Futures, and Model Media in Literature and the Arts.