Pearsall Power Plant
Pearsall Power Plant is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Pearsall, a 201.6 MW natural gas facility in Frio 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
- $30.93
- Latest · Nov 10, 10:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $36/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Southern zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Pearsall
- 201.6 MW natural gas · 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 $36/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 17 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 2.0% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Pearsall, a 201.6 MW natural gas 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
- 28.927, -99.092
- Settlement point
- PEARSA_1_24
Price statistics
631,298 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 48th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 23rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 32nd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.