Colorado Bend II
Colorado Bend II is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Colorado Bend II, a 1,230.3 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
- $37.71
- Latest · Nov 11, 3:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $31/MWh average
- $29/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Colorado Bend II
- 1,230.3 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 $29/MWh and the mean is $31/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 5 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 3.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Colorado Bend II, a 1,230.3 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
- 29.289, -96.065
- Settlement point
- CBECII_89
Price statistics
635,559 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 5th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 5th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 60th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.