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South Australia Battery Wrap — Q1 2026

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

  • Energy + FCAS revenue: $36.74M
  • Batteries: 14
  • Rev / MW: $31k/MW
  • Rev / MWh: $23k/MWh

South Australia (SA1) batteries earned $36.74M in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue in Q1 2026, from 14 grid-scale units tracked by NEMPulse. Figures cover the full period.

Normalised across 1,175 MW and 1,588 MWh of registered capacity, the region earned $31k/MW and $23k/MWh for the period.

Blyth Battery Energy Storage System led the region with $9.03M. 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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