Houston Hub
Houston Hub is a ERCOT market pricing point in the Coast zone. It is a pricing location, not a physical asset; its locational marginal price represents the marginal value of electricity at this point on the grid.
- Current real-time LMP
- $40.22
- Latest · Nov 9, 3:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $37/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- No direct facility mapping
- No physical facility crosswalk published
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 $32/MWh and the mean is $37/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 4 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 0.5% of intervals settled below zero.
- Node type
- HB
- Location
- 29.569, -95.409
- Settlement point
- HB_HOUSTON
Price statistics
623,417 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 59th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 7th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 8th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.