In 2022, INSPIRE worked with the Coastal 6 wind farms, located in the Eastern Cape Province and in close proximity to one another around the towns of Cape St Francis, Humansdorp and Jeffrey’s Bay.
The Coastal 6 Collaboration is uniquely positioned to drive impactful economic development investments through IPP’s.
Participating companies, led by visionary champions, have already built strong foundations for collaboration, relationships and initial project partnerships.
However, without dedicated partnership building capacity available amongst the C6 partners to enable greater collaboration, challenges are faced to step-up these achievements towards full potential for impact.
INSPIRE spent six months supporting the Coastal 6 to review and define their strategy, ambition and opportunities for joint project implementation.
The vision of the Eastern Cape Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEDEAT) is of a province where economic growth and sound environmental management underpin sustainable development.
DEDEAT and INSPIRE are utilising synergies where possible in their work towards these objectives defined by the Department:
The Secretariat for the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), developing the Just Transition aspects of the draft Investment Plan (IP) consulted experts on a draft version of the plan.
INSPIRE participated in the consultations and supported the secretariat in convening an expert discussion on social ownership.
The discussion explored lessons from existing approaches (e.g. best practice examples of social ownership in South Africa), perspectives on challenges, gaps in knowledge and financing options for social ownership and financial levers that can be used to enhance social ownership.
INSPIRE, in conversation with the Devonshire Initiative in Canada, has started this Learning Lab for multi-stakeholder initiatives. Every initiative in the Lab is working to foster dialogues in and around the energy transition, with renewable energy and/or mining specific stakeholders.
The Lab members met for a first meeting in October 2022, which brought six initiatives from Mexico, Zambia/South Africa, Canada, USA, South Africa and Argentina together.
The organisations exchanged some initial lessons learnt and discussed ideas for how we could work in more connected ways across these regional initiatives. The plan is to continue to learn from each other about various topics, including our respective Theories of Change, the positioning and framing of our work and how we raise funding.