South Load Zone
South Load Zone is a ERCOT market pricing point in the Southern 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
- $38.95
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $40/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Southern 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 $32/MWh and the mean is $40/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 4 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 0.6% of intervals settled below zero.
- Node type
- LZ
- Location
- 28.437, -98.273
- Settlement point
- LZ_SOUTH
Price statistics
624,699 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 79th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 73rd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 16th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.