West Hub
West Hub is a ERCOT market pricing point in the West 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
- $57.25
- Latest · Nov 9, 7:00 AM CST
- Typical price
- $36/MWh average
- $30/MWh median · trailing 365 days
- Grid location
- West 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 $30/MWh and the mean is $36/MWh, but the tail is much sharper: 36 five-minute intervals exceeded $1,000/MWh over the last 365 days, and 6.1% of intervals settled below zero.
- Node type
- HB
- Location
- 32.216, -100.885
- Settlement point
- HB_WEST
Price statistics
624,549 intervalsAverage price ranks at the 42nd percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Volatility ranks at the 48th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.
Negative-price hours ranks at the 77th percentile among 1,095 market nodes.