ERCOT Texas grid conditions and prices
Electric Reliability Council of Texas · Texas
Explore the Texas power grid with ERCOT real-time prices, demand, generation and forecasts. Open the map to compare nodes and hubs, inspect infrastructure and ask the agent about the grid conditions you find.
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Every dataset, sourced16 coverage areas live today. Each row is backed by named source feeds in the public data catalog — cadence and provenance included.
| Coverage | Detail | Cadence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time LMPs | Settlement points, hubs, and load zones — plus every electrical bus (the finest public price view of the grid) | 5-min (SCED) | Live |
| Day-ahead market | DAM settlement point prices, day-ahead system lambda, total energy and ancillary volumes cleared | Hourly (DAM) | Live |
| Congestion & constraints | SCED shadow prices with named binding constraints, real-time system lambda for congestion components, CRR monthly auction results | 5-min / monthly | Live |
| Demand | Real-time supply-demand dashboard, 15-minute system-wide demand, hourly load by the eight weather zones | 5-min – hourly | Live |
| Load forecasts | Seven-day mid-term load forecast by weather zone with hourly vintages, plus intraday forecast-vs-actual | Hourly vintages | Live |
| Fuel mix | Live generation by fuel — gas, wind, solar, nuclear, coal, hydro, storage, other | 5-min | Live |
| Wind & solar by region | Regional actuals with successive forecast vintages (STPPF, PVGRPP, COP HSL) for ramp and forecast-error analysis | Hourly | Live |
| Outages & commitments | Generation outage dashboard, hourly resource outage capacity by weather zone, planned outage limits, RUC-committed capacity | 5-min – hourly | Live |
| Ancillary services | DAM clearing prices and cleared volumes for RegUp, RegDown, RRS, ECRS, and Non-Spin | Hourly (DAM) | Live |
| 60-day disclosures | Per-unit SCED dispatch, telemetered output, limits, and AS responsibility for every generation and load resource | 5-min, 60-day lag | Live |
| Interconnection queue | Large-generation queue snapshots — developer, technology, MW, POI, status, and dates from ERCOT's GIS report | Monthly snapshot | Live |
| Grid events & notices | ERCOT event notices rendered on the live map as they post | As published | Live |
| Radar cockpit | The live monitoring board — fuel mix, hub and zone LMPs, binding constraints, system conditions on one wall | 30-second refresh | Live |
| Assets | Plant profiles built on EIA-860 registrations and HIFLD infrastructure — generators, substations, transmission lines | Reference | Live |
| Weather | ERA5 reanalysis history and forecast grids across the footprint, joined to load and generation | Hourly | Live |
| County outages | Live distribution-level outage counts by Texas county (ODIN) | Rolling | Live |
ERCOT Morning Briefing
A daily ERCOT market report delivered by email and kept on Ask the Grid, covering today’s load outlook, hub prices, risk hours, weather, outages, operator notices, and new market context.
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Where is ERCOT demand headed today, and which hours carry the most risk?
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ERCOT power plant registry
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EIA nameplate capacity
176GW
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