To avoid exacerbating societal injustices, an equity-centred approach to energy transitions is critical. In response, energy justice scholarship has grown over the years, exploring avenues for understanding and tackling inequities in energy systems. Similarly, community energy scholarship has emerged, focusing on energy decentralization, energy innovations at community level, and often promoted as a pathway to fostering equity in energy systems. Deploying an extensive review of energy transition literature, this paper argues that a convergence between community energy scholarship and energy justice scholarship into an emerging body of research on “community energy justice” is perceptible. Community energy justice is an area of scholarship emerging through convergence around three key concepts: community, energy transition, and justice. Through a synthesis of the literature, we outline four driving forces and two key approaches leading to the emergence of community energy justice at the convergent intersection of perspectives from both community energy and energy justice. Within the broader studies of the geographies of energy transition, we find that community energy justice aims to advance distributive, recognition and procedural justice in energy systems while upholding the agency, capability, and political power of communities. Such notions of community may go beyond place-based or localized conceptualizations to capture wider notions of community such as identity, process, scale, and more. By exploring this convergence, we show that the concept of “community” proves viable and effective as a tool for studying, understanding, and fostering justice and equity in energy systems. We also present a research agenda in this emerging field.