Tierra Seca BESS
Tierra Seca BESS is the ERCOT market pricing point associated with Tierra Seca, a 100 MW batteries facility in Val Verde 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
- $62.74
- Latest · Nov 10, 6:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $45/MWh average
- $32/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West zone
- Market pricing location
- Mapped facility
- Tierra Seca
- 100 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 $32/MWh and the mean is $45/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 752 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 2.1% of intervals settled below zero.
ERCOT’s resource crosswalk ties this pricing point to Tierra Seca, a 100 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
- West
- Location
- 29.349, -100.873
- Settlement point
- TSECA_ES_RN
Price statistics
630,139 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 97th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 90th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 35th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.