Santa Rita East Wind Farm
Santa Rita East Wind Farm is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Santa Rita East, a 302.4 MW wind facility in Irion 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
- $75.17
- Latest · Nov 9, 2:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $36/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Santa Rita East
- 302.4 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 $36/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 38 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 7.8% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Santa Rita East, a 302.4 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
- West
- Location
- 31.208, -101.111
- Settlement point
- HICK_G1_G2
Price statistics
623,092 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 46th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 59th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 91st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.