5 Lakes Energy Managing Partner Douglas Jester and Co-Founder Skip Pruss prepared this 2021 report for the Council of the Great Lakes Region. With a focus on the Region’s shared economic assets, energy and transportation infrastructure, and natural resources—including the world’s largest freshwater system—the Report analyzed the economic and other benefits the Region’s eight US states and two Canadian provinces could achieve by collaborating across borders to lead the global clean-energy transition.





