{
  "slug": "australia-grid-edge-conditions-2026-08",
  "title": "Australia Grid Edge Conditions: August 2026 Reference Edition",
  "url": "https://solaranalytica.com/australia-grid-edge-conditions-2026-08",
  "summary": "The first fixed monthly reference edition keeps annual context, operator records, distributed adoption and market-value evidence in separate, source-versioned lanes across the NEM and SWIS.",
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to Solar Analytica (solaranalytica.com). Underlying figures are named to their public sources below.",
  "csv": "https://solaranalytica.com/reports/australia-grid-edge-conditions-2026-08/data.csv",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-01",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-08-01",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "AEMO WEM data service",
      "url": "https://data.wa.aemo.com.au/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AEMO NEMWeb",
      "url": "https://nemweb.com.au/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Clean Energy Regulator small-scale installation data",
      "url": "https://cer.gov.au/markets/reports-and-data/small-scale-installation-postcode-data"
    },
    {
      "title": "Our World in Data energy dataset",
      "url": "https://ourworldindata.org/energy-data"
    }
  ],
  "figures": [
    {
      "id": "swis-rooftop-solar-pressure",
      "title": "SWIS rooftop solar share at daily peak",
      "unit": "%",
      "provenance": {
        "dataSource": "AEMO WEM",
        "dataType": "Derived daily operating metric",
        "scope": "SWIS",
        "statistic": "Rooftop PV at daily peak divided by implied underlying demand",
        "interval": "2 October 2023 to 17 July 2026"
      },
      "caption": "SWIS rooftop solar at its daily peak. This is a share of an implied underlying-demand proxy, not a settlement-demand measure.",
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "Average daily peak",
          "value": 52.4
        },
        {
          "label": "Maximum daily peak",
          "value": 80.8
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nem-battery-tbx-capture",
      "title": "NEM battery energy-only TBx capture",
      "unit": "%",
      "provenance": {
        "dataSource": "AEMO MMSDM and Solar Analytica",
        "dataType": "Derived market benchmark",
        "scope": "40 full-quarter NEM batteries",
        "statistic": "Actual energy revenue divided by duration-matched TBx",
        "interval": "Q1 2026"
      },
      "caption": "Energy-only capture for 40 full-quarter NEM batteries in Q1 2026. This is a realised-versus-benchmark ratio, not total battery revenue.",
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "Fleet median capture",
          "value": 46
        },
        {
          "label": "Perfect-foresight TBx",
          "value": 100
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}