POD_BALCHS_7_UNIT 3-APND
POD_BALCHS_7_UNIT 3-APND is a CAISO market pricing point in the PG&E TAC zone. It is a pricing location, not a physical asset; its locational marginal price represents the marginal value of electricity at this point on the grid.
- Current real-time LMP
- $50.77
- Latest · Nov 10, 4:00 PM PST
- Typical price
- $38/MWh average
- $39/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- PG&E TAC zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- No direct facility mapping
- No physical facility crosswalk published
What happened
Operator events at this pricing point, and outages of the units that settle here with what each did to its price.
Price
Real-time price history, price shape, and fleet-relative statistics.
Why this location matters
The trailing median price is $39/MWh and the mean is $38/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: no five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 7.6% of intervals settled below zero.
- Node type
- GEN
- Location
- 36.909, -119.088
- Settlement point
- POD_BALCHS_7_UNIT 3-APND
Price statistics
474,952 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 53rd percentile among 18,673 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 64th percentile among 18,673 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 96th percentile among 18,673 market nodes.