This week’s US midterm elections represented an overall victory for the wind and solar markets, while potentially teeing up a bipartisan compromise on infrastructure that would drive critical investment into the grid, says Greg Wetstone, chief executive of the American Council on Renewable Energy.

Speaking Thursday at the ACORE Grid Forum in San Francisco, Wetstone stressed that renewable energy should not be a political issue, with many of the economic benefits and jobs from utility-scale renewables going to rural, conservative-leaning parts of the country.