Right-wing populist parties have become established in most European countries, often having their strongholds in marginalized and so-called left-behind rural areas. Rural areas have increasingly become locations in which energy transitions materialize, turning rural areas into spaces of contestation as well as of emancipation. This chapter brings research on right-wing populism in dialogue with the transformation of energy infrastructures by exploring the potential of emancipatory visions of energy infrastructures in rural areas. We ask how initiatives for new energy infrastructures become not only part of future rural development, but also a way to resist populist co-optations of rurality. Therefore, we first look at how energy infrastructures have become a subject to right-wing populist parties’ spatial imaginaries of the rural as an untouched place, which needs to be defended against alien forces. Hereby, we draw on empirical illustrations from the Alternative for Germany and the Danish People’s Party to delineate populist infrastructural visions of the rural. Second, based on insights from the deployment of rural renewable energy projects in Germany and Denmark, we sketch out not only how alternative, insurgent and emancipatory imaginaries of energy projects elude hegemonic approaches to energy technology development, but also how they implicitly counteract a right-wing populist co-optation of the rural. Finally, we discuss how counterhegemonic visions of the utilization of renewable energy technologies can contribute to the formation of rural utopias.