Alamo 138 kV substation (C5 station code)
Alamo 138 kV substation (C5 station code) is a ERCOT market pricing point in the SouthCentral 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
- $48.27
- Latest · Nov 10, 12:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $37/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- SouthCentral 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 $32/MWh and the mean is $37/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: no five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 0.3% of intervals settled below zero.
- Zone
- SouthCentral
- Location
- 29.270, -98.460
- Settlement point
- C5_RN
Price statistics
535,643 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 59th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 8th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 0th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.