Buchanan Dam (TX)
Buchanan Dam (TX) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Buchanan Dam (TX), a 54.9 MW hydroelectric facility in Llano 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
- $45.09
- Latest · Nov 9, 9:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $39/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Buchanan Dam (TX)
- 54.9 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: 23 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 0.9% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Buchanan Dam (TX), a 54.9 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
- West
- Location
- 30.751, -98.418
- Settlement point
- BUCHAN_ALL
Price statistics
624,965 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 75th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 55th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 24th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.