The energy transition towards a more carbon neutral energy production has become a major topic for policy makers in recent years. Although the importance of a long-term vision and planning is widely acknowledged, the idea to speed up the energy transition with binding targets and timetables has also been criticised. Instead, societal transformations are created by the messy combination of actors and networks, stories and visions, regulations, agreements, local and regional initiatives, etc. Yet, there is still a lack of systematic analyses of how futures become mainstream in policy and practice. This article analyzes the context and actors in which the Danish energy transition emerges. We describe this process as materialization, referring to the process in which different representations of a future come together and incrementally organize the future. Although the Danish energy case has been analyzed by many authors over the last years, most analyses of the Danish energy transition are done from an institutional perspective. The importance of stories (about the future) has been mentioned as an important factor, but it has not been the focus of research. This research combines a discursive dimension with an institutional perspective to analyze how the future of renewable energy materialized and consolidated in Denmark. The case not only shows different phases of materialization, it also shows that different combinations of the interplay between actors, context and stories led to materialization and consolidation of the energy transition in Denmark.