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South Australia Battery Wrap — May 2026

Name: NEM Grid-Scale Battery Dispatch & Revenue Data
Creator: NEMPulse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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

Energy + FCAS revenue: $1.05M
Batteries: 12
Rev / MW: $833/MW
Rev / MWh: $602/MWh

South Australia (SA1) batteries earned $1.05M in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue in May 2026, from 12 grid-scale units tracked by NEMPulse. Figures cover the full period.

Normalised across 1,261 MW and 1,746 MWh of registered capacity, the region earned $833/MW and $602/MWh for the period.

Blyth Battery Energy Storage System led the region with $360k. Full dispatch, state-of-charge and bidding detail is available on each battery's page.

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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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