Coleto Creek
Coleto Creek is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Coleto Creek, a 622.4 MW coal facility in Goliad 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
- $34.35
- Latest · Nov 9, 7:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $35/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Coleto Creek
- 622.4 MW coal · 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 $35/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 4 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 1.4% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Coleto Creek, a 622.4 MW coal 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
- 28.713, -97.214
- Settlement point
- COL_COLETOG1
Price statistics
624,584 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 35th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 41st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 28th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.