Colorado Bend Energy Center
Colorado Bend Energy Center is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Colorado Bend Energy Center, a 654.1 MW natural gas facility in Wharton 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
- $37.72
- Latest · Nov 11, 7:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $38/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Colorado Bend Energy Center
- 654.1 MW natural gas · 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 $31/MWh and the mean is $38/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 6 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 2.4% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Colorado Bend Energy Center, a 654.1 MW natural gas 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
- 29.288, -96.068
- Settlement point
- CBEC_CC2
Price statistics
636,697 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 61st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 68th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 38th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.