Cactus Flats Wind Energy Project
Cactus Flats Wind Energy Project is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Cactus Flats Wind Energy Project, a 148.4 MW wind facility in Concho 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
- $59.70
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $38/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Cactus Flats Wind Energy Project
- 148.4 MW wind · 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 $30/MWh and the mean is $38/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 294 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 11.2% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Cactus Flats Wind Energy Project, a 148.4 MW wind 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
- 31.112, -100.028
- Settlement point
- CFLATS_UNIT
Price statistics
624,854 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 69th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 88th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 99th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.