Monte Cristo 1 Wind
Monte Cristo 1 Wind is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Monte Cristo 1, a 238.5 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
- $38.09
- 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
- Monte Cristo 1
- 238.5 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 $34/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 5 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 5.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Monte Cristo 1, a 238.5 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
- Southern
- Location
- 26.461, -98.286
- Settlement point
- MONTECR1_RN
Price statistics
629,560 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 21st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 23rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 71st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.