Within the integrative framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this research investigates the connection between women's empowerment and renewable energy solutions in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). The study examines how decentralized renewable energy systems, such as solar home systems, mini-grids, and clean cooking technologies, impact women's economic, social, and political agency in settings marked by institutional weakness, environmental stress, and active or latent conflict. It focuses on comparative case studies from Somalia, Yemen, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The study uses a mixed-methods approach, integrating qualitative insights from policy papers, project evaluations, and contextual assessments with secondary dataset analysis from international organizations. The study assesses empowerment results in a number of areas, including time usage, health and safety, income and employment, decision-making, and community involvement. It is based on Kabeer's (1999) tripartite model of empowerment, which includes resources, agency, and accomplishments. The results show that access to renewable energy greatly lowers women's time poverty and improves physical safety, but its conversion into more widespread empowerment depends heavily on intervention design, gender norms in the setting, and supplementary institutional supports. Compared to gender-blind, market-driven methods seen in Somalia, explicitly gender-transformative programs—like those in Yemen that include women's technical training and leadership roles—produced better and more lasting empowering outcomes. However, an empowerment paradox surfaced, highlighting the danger of perpetuating inequality in the absence of integrated, equity-focused approaches: women with pre-existing socioeconomic advantages benefited disproportionately, while the most marginalized, including displaced and rural women, experienced limited gains. According to the study's findings, renewable energy is an essential but insufficient catalyst for women's empowerment in FCAS. Deliberate gender integration, flexible implementation that takes conflict dynamics into account, and synergistic connections with other SDGs—especially SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 7 (clean and affordable energy), and SDG 16 (peaceful and inclusive societies)—are necessary for its success. The dissertation advances theoretical discourse by improving empowerment and energy justice frameworks for use in fragile settings, and it contributes to policy and practice by providing evidence-based recommendations for creating gender-responsive, conflict-sensitive renewable energy interventions. In the end, our study emphasizes that energy transitions must be used as transformational processes that support social justice, resilience, and equitable inclusion in some of the world's most vulnerable environments, rather than merely as technological solutions, in the goal of sustainable development.