  Energy correlators provide a powerful observable to study fragmentation
dynamics in QCD. We demonstrate that the leading nonperturbative corrections
for projected $N$-point energy correlators are described by the same universal
parameter for any $N$, which has already been determined from other event shape
fits. Including renormalon-free nonperturbative corrections substantially
improves theoretical predictions of energy correlators, notably the transition
into the confining region at small angles. Nonperturbative corrections are
shown to have a significant impact on $\alpha_s$ extractions.
