Pipelines and refineries, hydropower dams, and solar and wind power projectsfeeding into emerging transnational energy networks make up the thrust of a new pushfor infrastructural expansion in the global South. This article argues that understandingthe effects of this expansion requires attending to the multiple elsewheres of transnationalenergy projects in various states of realization. By this we mean accounting for the ways inwhich these projects are financed, planned, contested, contracted, built, transformed andwithheld at multiple, sometimes connected and sometimes disparate, sites across the globe.Focusing on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the Central American ElectricInterconnection System (SIEPAC) and the Mediterranean Electricity Ring (MedRing), ourresearch shows that such projects are ‘global’ not only in their physical reach and forging ofconnections between disparate and expansive geographies, but also in the ways they bringinto being new, transnational or global publics,