What do the official wholesale electricity prices say for SA1, 2 in Australia?

Wholesale electricity prices in Australia, from Australian Energy Market Operator. Figures as of 22 October 2026.

Prices recorded in official records of completed sales. Asking prices are never used.

Where this comes from

Source

AEMO: National Electricity Market regional spot prices (5-minute), published by Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)

Licence

AEMO general permission: anyone may use AEMO Material for any purpose with accurate and appropriate attribution of the material and AEMO as its author

Attribution

Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEM regional reference prices. Used under AEMO's general copyright permission with attribution. Medians, ranges and counts are own calculations by ProofPrice from the five-minute prices.

Figures as of

22 October 2026. This page is rebuilt when the daily price library is deployed.

How fresh the source is

AEMO publishes one price file per trading day (04:00 to 04:00 NEM time) early the next morning; ProofPrice reads the files of the last days on each request (cached up to 30 minutes)

Limits

Wholesale spot prices per NEM region (NSW incl. ACT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC), not what households or businesses pay on bills: retail tariffs add network charges, environmental costs and retailer margin. Western Australia and the Northern Territory are not in the NEM and are not covered. Prices are in Australian dollars per MWh and can be negative. The record count is five-minute intervals, not separate trades. Times are NEM time (UTC+10).

Rule

A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.

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Using the ProofPrice MCP server (pricepaid_wholesale_power_prices): What do the official wholesale electricity prices say for SA1, 2 in Australia? Give the figure with its unit, the period it covers, the number of records where the source states one, and cite the source and licence.

Use it in code

• MCP tool: pricepaid_wholesale_power_prices with {"country":"AU","region":"SA1","lookback_days":2}
• REST (live answer): /api/v1/wholesale-power?country=AU&region=SA1&lookback_days=2
• All parameters: openapi.json

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Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.