The research studio EXTRACTIVE PASTS, SUSTAINABLE FUTURES? convened 30 interdisciplinary researchers and artists to investigate Lusatia’s transformation as it hits the ground. By visiting mining sites, solar parks, conver-ted lakes, energy research centers and start-ups as well as learning about Sorbian history and culture—an ethnic minority of slawic origin in the region—we got first-hand experience of the region’s conversion and the role historic legacies play in influencing future infrastructural development. We engaged with company officials, city representatives, urban planners, energy researchers and artists from the region to understand their stakes in and perspectives on the transition. We documented sights, sounds, textures, and interactions with places, collected physical materials and captured sites through taking photos, recordings, sketches, and notes. By bringing together our respective metho-dologies, practices and viewpoints, this Energy Transition Inventory attempts at reconciling the multiple scales of activity that converge as “the energy transition”. It is a collection of pieces that do not aim at making a whole, just as patchy and contradictory as the transition itself.