Amistad Dam & Power (Hydroelectric Plant)
Amistad Dam & Power (Hydroelectric Plant) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Amistad Dam & Power, a 66 MW hydroelectric facility in Val Verde County. It is a pricing location, not the physical plant itself; its locational marginal price represents the marginal value of electricity at this point on the grid.
- Current real-time LMP
- $42.92
- Latest · Nov 10, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $45/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- ERCOT footprint
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Amistad Dam & Power
- 66 MW hydroelectric · ERCOT crosswalk
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 $45/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 752 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 2.1% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Amistad Dam & Power, a 66 MW hydroelectric facility. That relationship identifies the plant’s associated market location; the settlement point is still a price record, not the physical plant itself.
- Location
- 29.450, -101.060
- Settlement point
- AMISTAD_ALL
Price statistics
630,937 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 97th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 90th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 35th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.