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NEM Battery Revenues: South Australian BESS earn $43k/MW from FCAS in August 2025
BESS Revenues

04 Sep 2025

​In August 2025, battery energy storage revenues in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) rose by 37% despite mild energy price volatility. This rise was due to to intense and frequent price spikes in Lower 1-second (L1) Contingency FCAS for So...
​Frequency Performance Payments deliver limited value to batteries in the NEM
Ancillary Services

21 Aug 2025

Frequency Performance Payments (FPP) replaced the old Causer Pays methodology for frequency deviation penalties on 8 June 2025, adding new incentives for assets to stabilise the system’s frequency. The previous system penalised assets for deviating from their dispatch target but offered no rewards. The new two-sided FPP scheme rewards helpful frequency correction too, creating an additional revenue stream for assets. But how much value does this service generate today, and how does it compare to the old system?
NEM Battery Revenues: FCAS delivers for South Australia BESS in July 2025
Benchmark Report

07 Aug 2025

In July 2025, battery energy storage revenues in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) fell by over 60% as energy price volatility eased. While this marked a return to typical market conditions after an exceptional June, performance across the ...
CAISO: Wholesale H1 2025 BESS revenues rise year-over-year
BESS Revenues

31 Jul 2025

Grid-scale batteries in CAISO earned $4.05/kW-month in the first half of 2025. This represents a decrease of 7.7% from the same period last year.

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