Sam Rayburn Power Plant
Sam Rayburn Power Plant is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Sam Rayburn, a 192.8 MW natural gas facility in Victoria 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
- $43.20
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $37/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Sam Rayburn
- 192.8 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 $30/MWh and the mean is $37/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 532 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 2.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Sam Rayburn, a 192.8 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
- Coast
- Location
- 28.895, -97.135
- Settlement point
- RAYB_G78910
Price statistics
624,767 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 51st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 83rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 41st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.