Elbow Creek Wind Farm
Elbow Creek Wind Farm is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Elbow Creek Wind Project LLC, a 121.9 MW wind facility in Howard 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
- $95.57
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $38/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- North zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Elbow Creek Wind Project LLC
- 121.9 MW wind · 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: 43 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 8.2% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Elbow Creek Wind Project LLC, a 121.9 MW wind facility. That relationship identifies the plant’s associated market location; the settlement point is still a price record, not the physical plant itself.
- Zone
- North
- Location
- 32.141, -101.399
- Settlement point
- ELB_ELBCREEK
Price statistics
624,665 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 67th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 66th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 94th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.