SMT Rio Grande I LLC
SMT Rio Grande I LLC is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with SMT Rio Grande I LLC, a 10 MW batteries facility in Starr 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
- $52.28
- Latest · Nov 10, 1:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $41/MWh average
- $31/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Southern zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- SMT Rio Grande I LLC
- 10 MW batteries · 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 $41/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 1,520 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 3.2% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to SMT Rio Grande I LLC, a 10 MW batteries 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
- 26.409, -98.937
- Settlement point
- RIOG_ESR_RN
Price statistics
628,862 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 84th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 96th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 57th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.