Big Spring Electricity Generating Facility (C R Wing Cogeneration Plant complex)
Big Spring Electricity Generating Facility (C R Wing Cogeneration Plant complex) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with C R Wing Cogen Plant, a 169.8 MW natural gas facility in Howard 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
- $72.08
- Latest · Nov 9, 3:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $42/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- North zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- C R Wing Cogen Plant
- 169.8 MW natural gas · 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 $42/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 33 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 6.3% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to C R Wing Cogen Plant, a 169.8 MW natural gas facility. That relationship identifies the plant’s associated market location; the settlement point is still a price record, not the physical plant itself.
- Zone
- North
- Location
- 32.273, -101.422
- Settlement point
- CARBN_BSP_1
Price statistics
623,252 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 89th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 75th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 80th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.