A PV array at the Chisago Solar Site, part of the Aurora Solar Project in Minnesota. NREL Clean Energy 2020 Year in Review: Midwest Progress Jessica Collingsworth, Energy policy analyst | December 17, 2020, 10:06 am EDT This year has obviously been an incredibly challenging year, with the coronavirus pandemic, job losses, and a long-overdue reckoning with systemic racism in the United States, and at UCS. Through it all, though, there were some signs of progress related to clean energy in the Midwest. My colleague James Gignac and I want to highlight some clean energy wins that have pushed clean energy forward in the region.