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South Australia Battery Wrap — H1 2026

How South Australia's grid-scale batteries performed in H1 2026: energy and FCAS market revenue, $/MW, $/MWh, top performers, and price events.

  • Energy + FCAS revenue: $41.29M
  • Batteries: 13
  • Rev / MW: $32k/MW
  • Rev / MWh: $23k/MWh

South Australia (SA1) batteries earned $41.29M in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue so far in H1 2026, from 13 grid-scale units tracked by NEMPulse. Figures cover H1 2026 to date (through 12 Jun 2026).

Normalised across 1,291 MW and 1,758 MWh of registered capacity, the region earned $32k/MW and $23k/MWh for the period.

Blyth Battery Energy Storage System led the region with $10.12M. Full dispatch, state-of-charge and bidding detail is available on each battery's page.

South Australia saw 39 price events this period, including an extreme price event peaking at $20,300/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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