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$2m payday for home battery owners as heatwave catches grid off guard

ABC News Australia - Top Stories · 17 October 2026 at 5:00 am

This week's unseasonal heat, coal outages and transmission constraints sent NSW power prices soaring, but batteries added a twist.

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