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South Australia Battery Wrap — Q3 2026

Name: NEM Grid-Scale Battery Dispatch & Revenue Data
Creator: NEMPulse
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How South Australia's grid-scale batteries performed in Q3 2026: energy and FCAS market revenue, $/MW, $/MWh, top performers, and price events.

Energy + FCAS revenue: $41k
Batteries: 13
Rev / MW: $40/MW
Rev / MWh: $26/MWh

South Australia (SA1) batteries earned $41k in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue so far in Q3 2026, from 13 grid-scale units tracked by NEMPulse. Figures cover Q3 2026 to date (through 1 Jul 2026).

Normalised across 1,020 MW and 1,583 MWh of registered capacity, the region earned $40/MW and $26/MWh for the period.

Torrens Island BESS led the region with $11k. 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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