Capricorn Ridge / Bluebell Solar Complex
Capricorn Ridge / Bluebell Solar Complex is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Bluebell Solar II, a 115 MW solar facility in Sterling 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
- $75.22
- Latest · Nov 9, 1:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $37/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Bluebell Solar II
- 115 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 $30/MWh and the mean is $37/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 32 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 7.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Bluebell Solar II, a 115 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
- West
- Location
- 31.901, -100.817
- Settlement point
- CAPRIDG4_CR4
Price statistics
622,709 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 62nd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 56th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 90th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.