Commerce ESS (Southwest Research Institute)
Commerce ESS (Southwest Research Institute) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Commerce ESS, a 10 MW batteries facility in Bexar 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
- $37.22
- Latest · Nov 10, 9:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $37/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- SouthCentral zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Commerce ESS
- 10 MW batteries · 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 $37/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 48 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 0.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Commerce ESS, a 10 MW batteries facility. That relationship identifies the plant’s associated market location; the settlement point is still a price record, not the physical plant itself.
- Zone
- SouthCentral
- Location
- 29.434, -98.618
- Settlement point
- X443ESRN
Price statistics
631,193 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 55th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 26th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 16th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.