King Mountain Wind Ranch 1
King Mountain Wind Ranch 1 is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with King Mountain Wind Ranch 1, a 278 MW wind facility in Upton 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
- $83.24
- Latest · Nov 9, 4:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $39/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- FarWest zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- King Mountain Wind Ranch 1
- 278 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 $39/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 33 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 6.9% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to King Mountain Wind Ranch 1, a 278 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
- FarWest
- Location
- 31.238, -102.238
- Settlement point
- KINGE_ALL
Price statistics
623,639 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 73rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 59th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 87th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.