Australian FCAS power price trends

This report provides power price trends for the technology enablement as a percentage of total market share, using outputs from Cornwall Insight Australia’s latest Frequency Control Ancillary Service (FCAS) price curves, published on 30 August 2022.

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The FCAS is based on comprehensive market and asset-level FCAS bid modelling that delivers long-term FCAS price forecasts, informed by industry-leading regulatory, market and policy expertise and supplemented with direct access to trusted practitioners. Our FCAS price curve forecast has a 30-minute dispatch granularity for a 20-year outlook.

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