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Truth To Power

Truth to Power is a weekly editorial from IntelStor Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro. It examines data driven insights for the energy sector, with a focus on renewables.

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10:08

Truth to Power - Episode 43

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2026/04/08

On this week's episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro presents the installed capacity and market share of #renewableenergy within the Asia Pacific region from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report.Asia Pacific started 2000 with 23.2% renewable capacity additions, which puts the region ahead of Africa, on par with the Americas and behind Europe. By the end of 2025, the region has started to heavily influence the overall global trend with just under

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8:50

Truth to Power - Episode Special

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2026/04/06

On this special episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro presents the highlights of the new global #windenergy forecast. The global market for onshore wind energy is 1.2 TW as of the end of 2025, with capacity installed in over 149 countries. Onshore wind energy may still be behind hydropower in installed capacity as of the end of 2025, but by the end of 2026, it will become the #2 renewable energy technology installed globally. The popularity of the technology has

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7:38

Truth to Power - Episode 42

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2026/04/01

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro looks at the feed in tariffs, public finance & capital efficiency of #renewableenergy within the Americas region from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report.Much like the most of the rest of the world, hydropower has dominated the amount of public finance that has been provided to renewable energy. While that funding tapered off by 2014 in lieu of support for onshore wind, and more recently

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7:50

Truth to Power - Episode 41

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2026/03/25

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro analyzes the generation and efficiency of #renewableenergy within the Americas region from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report.2025 ended with over 2.8 petawatt hours of renewable energy generation in the Americas region. While hydropower was 92.3% of the market share in 2000, it comprised 91.6% of the generation in the market. As of the end of 2025, hydropower’s contribution to renewable

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9:22

Truth to Power - Episode 40

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2026/03/18

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro analyzes the capacity additions and market share of #renewableenergy within the Americas region from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report.While the region is still majority dependent on fossil fuels, 2025 ended with renewables at ~47% with non- renewable sources at 53% in terms of capacity installed. The USA dominates the world with more than 478.5 GW installed, with solar PV now outpacing

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8:08

Truth to Power - Episode 39

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2026/03/11

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro dives into the feed in tariffs finance and capital efficiency of #renewableenergy within the Africa & Middle East region from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report.Many countries are simply not sophisticated enough to have a market in which FiTs could be offered or are necessary to offer, given that a government controlled utility company is typically the power offtaker. FiTs have ranged

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11:16

Truth to Power - Episode 38

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2026/03/04

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro examines the #windenergy projects in the USA which would benefit from a new power offtake agreement with data centers.On this week’s episode I’ll take a look at the wind energy projects in the USA which would benefit from a new power offtake agreement with data centers. They are spread across 231 project sites in 31 states, which is approximately 9.4% of the installed capacity for onshore wind energy in the

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6:05

Truth to Power - Episode 37

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2026/02/25

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro looks at generation and operational efficiency of #renewableenergy within the Africa & the Middle East region from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report. As of 2025, hydropower dropped to 62.4% market share with solar PV gaining momentum to 22.6% wind at 7.9% and geothermal at 3.3%. Solar PV and onshore wind will continue to take share away from hydropower. Hydropower leads on capacity

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9:02

Truth to Power - Episode 36

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2026/02/18

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro takes a deep dive from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report to look at #renewableenergy within each global region, starting with Africa & the Middle East.The Africa & Middle Eastern region represent the largest opportunity and need for renewable energy deployment in order to offset a staggering dependence on fossil fuels which still exists today. The region has been overwhelmingly

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10:19

Truth to Power - Episode 35

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2026/02/14

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro continues analysis from the IntelStor Future of Renewables #marketresearch Report to look at generation and efficiency, as well as finance data for all global regions.The world has generated a collective 10.795 petawatt hours of renewable energy as of the end of 2025 with 52.24% of global generation coming from Asia Pacific, 26% coming from the Americas, 18.97% coming from Europe and just 2.8% coming from Africa

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13:22

Truth to Power - Episode 34

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2026/02/05

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro dissect the costs to the US offshore wind sector from the stop work orders as well as the tariffs which have been enacted.The financial impact of the US administration’s stop work orders on the construction of the five offshore wind farms in the USA have totaled more than $515 million. On top of this, the impact of tariffs imposed by the US administration has added another $1.06 billion to the total cost as

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7:42

Truth to Power - Episode 33

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2026/01/28

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro returns to to the IntelStor Future of Renewables Report to get more analysis on the regional breakdown of the capacity, generation & finance data.Solar PV leads the world in capacity installed, thanks to China’s 991 GW capacity bolstering the Asia Pacific region. Without China, solar PV still has over 340GW installed in the region due in part to a strong adoption rate in Vietnam, and neighboring southeast

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9:04

Truth to Power - Episode 32

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2026/01/21

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro discusses how the commercial implementation of new solar technology will unlock a repowering and efficiency revolution that could double the amount of solar used on the grid.Efficiency improvements in solar cells are being introduced all the time by various research entities and industry companies who have invested heavily in developing technologies with more robust performance. The latest approach is a

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8:30

Truth to Power - Episode 31

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2026/01/14

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro continues a look into the future of the renewable energy market globally, looking at our power generation forecasts and the impact of public finance on renewable energy adoption rates.All renewable energy sources combined generate over 10.7 petawatt hours of power as of the end of 2025. By 2030 that will be close to 13 petawatt hours per year, an increase of more than 22.5%. In 2025, capacity factors have ranged

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7:56

Truth to Power - Episode 30

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2026/01/07

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro kicks off a new series with a deep dive into the future of the renewable energy market globally, with the launch of our latest global market forecast.The most important outcome is that renewable energy is now 50% of the power generation mix. Capacity additions across all renewable energy technologies now total 4.89TW globally with solar PV leading the way, followed by hydropower then onshore wind. The world went

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7:50

Truth to Power - Episode 29

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2025/12/15

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro digs into the ruling made yesterday by US Federal District Court Judge Patti Saris regarding the president’s executive order halting wind and solar permitting in the USA, and the impact on the US #offshorewind market.Since January when the executive order was issued and since April when Empire Wind saw their project construction halted, there have been six projects worth a total of more than $15 billion in project

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7:42

Truth to Power - Episode 28

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2025/12/04

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro talks about discuss the pending changes to the day-ahead market in California & Western US, and the impact that will have on renewable energy curtailments as well as capacity additions.As we approach 2026, the CAISO led initiative to establish what they call the Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM) has PacifiCorp and Portland General Electric entering the market next year already. PGE has more than a gigawatt of

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7:54

Truth to Power - Episode 27

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2025/11/11

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro concludes the analysis IntelStor has completed on #windenergy asset profitability & the prospects for the O&M market in the USA.The average cost of maintenance for wind energy assets in the USA is $6.44 / MWhr produced. It’s pretty clear that as assets age they become more expensive to maintain. However, as assets age, the maintenance cost will escalate at different rates. If we look at the average age

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9:28

Truth to Power - Episode 26

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2025/11/04

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro continues a deep dive on some of the analysis IntelStor has completed on #windenergy asset profitability & the prospects for the O&M market in the USA.A total of $63 billion has been doled out to wind energy IPPs since 1992. That investment by the US government has unlocked more than $750 billion in investment in wind energy the USA, including over $245 billion in CapEx on wind farm projects and the rest

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8:39

Truth to Power - Episode 25

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2025/10/28

On this week’s episode of #TruthtoPower, IntelStor's Founder & CEO, Philip Totaro presents an update on some of the analysis IntelStor has completed on #windenergy asset profitability & the prospects for the O&M market in the USA.A high power purchase agreement (PPA) price and a high net capacity factor (NCF) typically leads to high profitability. High NCF definitely has an impact on the energy yield benchmarking independent of PPA price. But some assets with a high PPA price and

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