Big Sampson Wind
Big Sampson Wind is a ERCOT market pricing point in the West 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
- $102.80
- Latest · Nov 9, 9:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $37/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West 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 $30/MWh and the mean is $37/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 38 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 7.9% of intervals settled below zero.
- Zone
- West
- Location
- 30.982, -101.850
- Settlement point
- BIGSAMWD_RN
Price statistics
624,942 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 50th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 61st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 93rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.