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The Australian battery isn't just making money from Arbitrage. It makes most of it from "Frequency control ancillary services (FCAS)". "80-90% of battery reven
by slyall 3y ago
The Australian battery isn't just making money from Arbitrage. It makes most of it from "Frequency control ancillary services (FCAS)".
"80-90% of battery revenues have been coming from FCAS and about 10-20% from energy trading."[1]
I would assume the amount of FCAS capacity needed will be fairly limited so the economics of additional batteries won't be as good.
[1] https://www.energy-storage.news/batteries-are-number-one-at-maintaining-australias-grid-frequency/ https://www.energy-storage.news/batteries-are-number-one-at-...