Live Oak Wind Project (also known as Wilson Ranch)
Live Oak Wind Project (also known as Wilson Ranch) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Live Oak Wind Project, a 199.5 MW wind facility in Schleicher 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
- $72.61
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $36/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Live Oak Wind Project
- 199.5 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 $30/MWh and the mean is $36/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 38 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 6.7% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Live Oak Wind Project, a 199.5 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
- West
- Location
- 31.049, -100.623
- Settlement point
- WL_RANCH_RN
Price statistics
624,808 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 48th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 55th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 85th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.