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Overview

Locational marginal prices from ERCOT's real-time market, published every five minutes by Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) for resource nodes, load zones, and trading hubs. This table supports observed price levels, rankings, volatility, and basis between settlement points. Total-LMP differences do not identify a congestion component, binding facility, shift factor, or physical topology relationship, so they cannot establish why two points separated without matched attribution data. The official source is ERCOT report NP6-788-CD (Settlement Point Prices at Resource Nodes, Hubs and Load Zones).

Use with MCP

This table is available through the signed-in, read-only Ask the Grid MCP server. Connect a market below, then use search_data or describe_data to load its query contract before calling query_data.

Schema7

Column
Type
event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')
settlement_pointLowCardinality(String)
lmpNullable(Float64)
dst_flagNullable(Bool)
emil_idNullable(String)
doc_idNullable(Int64)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample rows

event_timesettlement_pointlmpdst_flagemil_iddoc_idingested_at
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000ZIER_SLR_ALL77.05false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000Z5_DGR1_RN81.2false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000Z0_DGR2_RN80.75false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000Z0_DGR1_RN80.75false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000YNG_WND_ALL80.34false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000YCAT_WND_RN79.79false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000YAPN_SLR_RN80.53false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000X443ESRN78.91false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000X1_DGR_RN79.17false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000W_PECO_UNIT183.94false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000W_HRL_ESR_RN31.73false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WZRD_ESS_RN73.4false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WR_RN68.11false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WRSBES_BESS185.12false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WOV_BESS_RN81.61false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WOODWRD2_RN62.85false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WOODWRD1_RN62.85false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WND_WHITNEY80.66false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WNDTS2_UNIT180.34false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WL_RANCH_RN81.45false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WLTC_ESR_RN35.6false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WIR_WIRTZ_G284.63false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WIR_WIRTZ_G184.63false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WIPOPA_3_496.75false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851
2026-08-12 02:00:24.000000WIPOPA_1_296.75false2026-08-12 02:05:14.706851

Coverage

100.0% complete0 gap days4,487 days with data
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