Abstract The renewable energy (RE) industry faces a significant challenge globally: gaining and maintaining social acceptance. Social acceptance of RE projects, including associated infrastructure such as transmission lines, is deeply rooted in justice and equity concerns regarding environmental and social impacts, cultural implications, land use conflicts, and the legitimacy of consultation processes, among others. This paper argues that if addressing injustices is a condition for securing social acceptance, energy justice can serve as both a goal and roadmap to unfold acceptability towards RE projects while serving to identify critical elements that must be addressed. It does so by outlining considerations for achieving energy justice in RE projects and presenting an example on the role, potentialities, and challenges of the figure of community advisors as critical actors for ensuring energy justice.