TECO CHP-1 (Texas Medical Center Central)
TECO CHP-1 (Texas Medical Center Central) is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with TECO CHP-1, a 98 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
- $36.67
- Latest · Nov 9, 8:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $36/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- Coast zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- TECO CHP-1
- 98 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 $30/MWh and the mean is $36/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 1,627 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 TECO CHP-1, a 98 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
- 29.703, -95.398
- Settlement point
- TC_PUN1
Price statistics
624,652 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 50th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 98th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 92nd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.