McDonald 138kV Substation (Forest Creek / Sand Bluff Wind collector)
McDonald 138kV Substation (Forest Creek / Sand Bluff Wind collector) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Forest Creek Wind Farm LLC, a 124.2 MW wind facility in Glasscock 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
- $92.08
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $40/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Forest Creek Wind Farm LLC
- 124.2 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 $40/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 40 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 6.3% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Forest Creek Wind Farm LLC, a 124.2 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
- 32.086, -101.275
- Settlement point
- MCDLD_FCSBW1
Price statistics
624,669 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 79th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 66th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 82nd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.