The latest complete month of grid-scale battery revenue in the Australian NEM — a permanent, citable page that updates each month.
Across the Australian National Electricity Market, 56 grid-scale batteries earned a combined $17.98M in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue in June 2026, based on AEMO dispatch data tracked by NEMPulse. Figures cover the full period.
Normalised across the fleet's 8,182 MW and 19,554 MWh of active capacity, batteries earned $2k/MW and $919/MWh for the period (equivalent to $27k/MW/yr annualised).
Revenue per MW by battery duration class: 1H: $3k/MW, 2H: $2k/MW, 3H: $659/MW, 4H+: $3k/MW. Longer-duration assets typically earn more per MW through energy arbitrage, while shorter-duration batteries often lead on a per-MWh basis.
On energy arbitrage, the fleet captured 38% of the revenue a perfect-foresight strategy would have earned over the same period, leaving an estimated $25.89M on the table.
The top earners were Eraring Battery Energy Storage System ($1.41M); Supernode BESS ($1.22M); Mannum Battery Energy Storage System ($1.16M).
Alongside grid-scale BESS, 16 residential virtual power plant (VPP) and demand-response aggregator units contributed an estimated $13k in FCAS market revenue in June 2026 ($214/MW of registered FCAS capacity). VPPs participate exclusively in FCAS markets through pooled residential and commercial assets.
NEMPulse recorded 22 significant price events during the period — explore each one, and how the fleet responded, on the market events page.
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