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