Buffalo Creek (Old 300) Solar Center / BESS
Buffalo Creek (Old 300) Solar Center / BESS is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Old 300 Solar Center, LLC, a 430 MW solar facility in Fort Bend 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
- $27.33
- Latest · Nov 11, 9:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $30/MWh average
- $29/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Old 300 Solar Center, LLC
- 430 MW solar · 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 $29/MWh and the mean is $30/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 5 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 4.3% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Old 300 Solar Center, LLC, a 430 MW solar facility. That relationship identifies the plant’s associated market location; the settlement point is still a price record, not the physical plant itself.
- Zone
- Coast
- Location
- 29.329, -95.835
- Settlement point
- BCK_RN
Price statistics
637,202 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 2nd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 6th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 64th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.