Appaloosa Run Wind
Appaloosa Run Wind is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Appaloosa Run Wind, a 171.8 MW wind facility in Upton 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
- $106.36
- Latest · Nov 9, 9:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $39/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- FarWest zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Appaloosa Run Wind
- 171.8 MW wind · 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 $31/MWh and the mean is $39/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 40 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 9.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Appaloosa Run Wind, a 171.8 MW wind facility. That relationship identifies the plant’s associated market location; the settlement point is still a price record, not the physical plant itself.
- Zone
- FarWest
- Location
- 31.157, -101.832
- Settlement point
- APPALOSA_ALL
Price statistics
624,962 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 72nd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 78th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 97th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.