T H Wharton Power Plant
T H Wharton Power Plant is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with T H Wharton, a 1,189.9 MW natural gas facility in Harris 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
- $40.80
- Latest · Nov 9, 3:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $37/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- T H Wharton
- 1,189.9 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 $32/MWh and the mean is $37/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 6 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 0.6% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to T H Wharton, a 1,189.9 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
- 29.942, -95.531
- Settlement point
- THW_CC1
Price statistics
623,238 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 61st percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 12th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 13th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.