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Over the past decade the Ecuadorian government pursued an `energy transition' policy aimed at increasing hydroelectric capacity, increasing capacity for fossil fuels refining and transport, increasing consumer-side energy efficiency, and reducing fossil fuels subsidies. This presentation sets this policy in the social and political context of the past century, with a special focus on the way that government relations with the Ecuadorian Amazon, and particularly with indigenous Amazonians, has shaped the country's current energy path.