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NEM Battery Fleet Wrap — 2025

Fleet-wide energy and FCAS market revenue, normalised $/MW and $/MWh, and the top-earning grid-scale batteries in 2025.

  • Energy + FCAS revenue: $251.12M
  • Batteries: 46
  • Rev / MW: $40k/MW
  • Rev / MWh: $20k/MWh
  • Optimal capture: 51%
  • VPP FCAS revenue: $421k

Across the Australian National Electricity Market, 46 grid-scale batteries earned a combined $251.12M in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue in 2025, based on AEMO dispatch data tracked by NEMPulse. NEMPulse data begins 13 Apr 2025, so figures cover 13 Apr 2025–31 Dec 2025 of this period.

Normalised across the fleet's 6,248 MW and 12,440 MWh of active capacity, batteries earned $40k/MW and $20k/MWh for the period (equivalent to $40k/MW/yr annualised).

Energy arbitrage supplied 88% of the total and FCAS 12%, with estimated Frequency Performance Payments adding $1.93M. Within FCAS, regulation accounted for 29% and contingency 71%; the single largest market was lower 6-second at $8.34M.

For context on the trading conditions, the average daily price spread (top two hours minus bottom two hours) across the five NEM regions was $301/MWh, and the highest spot price reached $20,300/MWh.

Revenue per MW by battery duration class: 1H: $58k/MW, 2H: $40k/MW, 3H: $35k/MW, 4H+: $11k/MW. Longer-duration assets typically earn more per MW through energy arbitrage, while shorter-duration batteries often lead on a per-MWh basis.

On energy arbitrage, the fleet captured 51% of the revenue a perfect-foresight strategy would have earned over the same period, leaving an estimated $192.47M on the table.

Re-solving the same batteries on AEMO's published PREDISPATCH price forecasts instead of hindsight — execution held identical to the perfect run — reaches 66% of the perfect ceiling across the 180 forecast-covered days in the period, against 47% actually realised. That isolates what public price information alone is worth; it is a reference point, not a floor — real dispatch can beat it or fall short of it.

On capture of the perfect-foresight energy benchmark, the strongest performers were Koorangie Energy Storage System (83%), Happy Valley Water Treatment Plant (80%), Riverina Energy Storage System 1 (78%). At the other end: Waratah Super Battery (10%), Eraring Battery Energy Storage System (-0%), Swanbank BESS (-1%) — capture reflects strategy, contracting and constraints as much as skill, so a low figure is not automatically underperformance.

The strongest single day was 12 Jun 2025 at $34.69M, and the best single battery-day was Western Downs Battery Energy Storage System on 12 Jun 2025 with $4.49M. Revenue stays concentrated: five of the period's 263 days delivered 35% of everything the fleet earned.

The top earners were Western Downs Battery Energy Storage System ($26.07M); Rangebank BESS ($20.89M); Blyth Battery Energy Storage System ($18.73M).

Alongside grid-scale BESS, 22 residential virtual power plant (VPP) and demand-response aggregator units contributed an estimated $421k in FCAS market revenue in 2025 ($5,334/MW of registered FCAS capacity). VPPs participate exclusively in FCAS markets through pooled residential and commercial assets.

NEMPulse recorded 277 significant price events during the period, the sharpest an extreme price event in New South Wales peaking at $20,300/MWh. Each event, and how every battery responded, is broken down on the market events page.

Top batteries — 2025
BatteryRegionEnergy + FCAS$/MW$/MWhCapture
Western Downs Battery Energy Storage SystemQLD1$26.07M$102k/MW$65k/MWh70%
Rangebank BESSVIC1$20.89M$104k/MW$52k/MWh73%
Blyth Battery Energy Storage SystemSA1$18.73M$94k/MW$47k/MWh47%
Koorangie Energy Storage SystemVIC1$18.27M$99k/MW$49k/MWh83%
Victorian Big BatteryVIC1$17.33M$58k/MW$39k/MWh52%
Torrens Island BESSSA1$14.38M$58k/MW$58k/MWh43%
Greenbank BESSQLD1$12.19M$61k/MW$30k/MWh68%
Capital BatteryNSW1$9.46M$95k/MW$47k/MWh53%
Chinchilla BESS, Units 1-80QLD1$9.35M$93k/MW$47k/MWh65%
Riverina Energy Storage System 1NSW1$9.00M$150k/MW$75k/MWh78%

Capture = actual energy revenue as a share of the perfect-foresight LP benchmark; shown only for units with material modelled upside.

Region breakdown — 2025
RegionBatteriesEnergy + FCAS$/MW$/MWh
Victoria12$84.94M$52k/MW$26k/MWh
Queensland11$67.63M$36k/MW$19k/MWh
South Australia12$55.90M$61k/MW$39k/MWh
New South Wales11$42.64M$23k/MW$10k/MWh

$/MW uses Max Cap (the grid-constrained operational rating); $/MWh uses registered energy capacity.

In the news this period
Australian utility Flow Power closes financing on its first BESS project, in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley
Energy-Storage.News · 22 Dec 2025 · Latrobe Valley BESS
Ulinda Park BESS powers up Queensland
Ecogeneration · 17 Dec 2025 · Ulinda Park BESS
Waratah Super Battery gets a further update from owner, still opaque on transformer failure
ESS News · 25 Nov 2025 · Waratah Super Battery
Australia’s Waratah Super Battery enters planned shutdown amid transformer replacement efforts
Energy-Storage.News · 24 Nov 2025 · Waratah Super Battery
Victoria fast-tracks approval of major solar battery hybrid project, and new big battery in Latrobe Valley
Renew Economy · 2 Nov 2025 · Victorian Big Battery

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Automatically generated from AEMO public data using fixed templates (not AI-written). Figures are estimated gross market revenue (energy + FCAS) from dispatch — they exclude contracts, hedges and network-support schemes (e.g. SIPS), so actual commercial revenue will differ.

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