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Queensland Battery Wrap — Q1 2026

How Queensland's grid-scale batteries performed in Q1 2026: energy and FCAS market revenue, $/MW, $/MWh, top performers, and price events.

  • Energy + FCAS revenue: $21.62M
  • Batteries: 12
  • Rev / MW: $8k/MW
  • Rev / MWh: $5k/MWh

Queensland (QLD1) batteries earned $21.62M in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue in Q1 2026, from 12 grid-scale units tracked by NEMPulse. Figures cover the full period.

Normalised across 2,601 MW and 4,117 MWh of registered capacity, the region earned $8k/MW and $5k/MWh for the period.

Tarong BESS led the region with $3.48M. Full dispatch, state-of-charge and bidding detail is available on each battery's page.

Queensland saw 1 price events this period, including an extreme price event peaking at $19,728/MWh.

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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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