SMT Houston IV
SMT Houston IV is a ERCOT market pricing point in the Coast zone. It is a pricing location, not a physical asset; its locational marginal price represents the marginal value of electricity at this point on the grid.
- Current real-time LMP
- $26.77
- Latest · Nov 10, 12:00 PM CST
- Typical price
- $34/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- No direct facility mapping
- No physical facility crosswalk published
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 $34/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: no five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 2.2% of intervals settled below zero.
- Zone
- Coast
- Location
- 29.770, -95.783
- Settlement point
- CLT_RN
Price statistics
552,395 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 25th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 3rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 37th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.