Heart of Texas Wind Project (RTS/RTS2)
Heart of Texas Wind Project (RTS/RTS2) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Heart of Texas Wind Project, a 180 MW wind facility in McCulloch 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
- $49.16
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $33/MWh average
- $29/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- NorthCentral zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Heart of Texas Wind Project
- 180 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 $29/MWh and the mean is $33/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 37 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 9.3% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Heart of Texas Wind Project, a 180 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
- NorthCentral
- Location
- 31.242, -99.421
- Settlement point
- RN_RTS1
Price statistics
624,846 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 17th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 53rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 97th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.