Los Mirasoles 345kV Substation (Mirasole POI, Hidalgo & Starr Wind)
Los Mirasoles 345kV Substation (Mirasole POI, Hidalgo & Starr Wind) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Hidalgo Wind Farm II, a 50.4 MW wind facility in Hidalgo 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
- $37.83
- Latest · Nov 10, 4:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $34/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Southern zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Hidalgo Wind Farm II
- 50.4 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 $34/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 5 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 5.5% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Hidalgo Wind Farm II, a 50.4 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
- Southern
- Location
- 26.444, -98.479
- Settlement point
- MIRASOLE_GEN
Price statistics
629,322 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 23rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 24th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 70th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.