Austin (Hydroelectric)
Austin (Hydroelectric) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Austin, a 18 MW hydroelectric facility in Travis 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
- $37.25
- Latest · Nov 10, 5:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $39/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- SouthCentral zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Austin
- 18 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 $39/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 122 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 0.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Austin, a 18 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.
- Zone
- SouthCentral
- Location
- 30.293, -97.784
- Settlement point
- AUSTPL_ALL
Price statistics
630,021 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 71st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 78th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 13th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.