ERCOT Houston Hub price
The latest real-time price at ERCOT Houston Hub (HB_HOUSTON) and its running averages for today, this week and this month, with daily and monthly history.
ERCOT Houston Hub price
The latest real-time price at ERCOT Houston Hub (HB_HOUSTON) and its running averages for today, this week and this month, with daily and monthly history.
ERCOT Houston Hub real-time price
Latest real-time price
$40.07
Oct 6, 3:10 PM CT · $/MWh
Today's average so far
$31.22
Oct 6 · 1 day
Week to date
$52.77
Oct 5 – Oct 6 · 2 days
Month to date
$46.00
Oct 1 – Oct 6 · 6 days
September 2026
$39.46
Full-month average
LMP by hub & zone
Hubs
HOUSTON$40.07
NORTH$23.21
PAN$16.91
SOUTH$47.73
WEST$39.7
Load zones
AEN$54.26
CPS$47.02
HOUSTON$89.01
LCRA$51.29
NORTH$25.69
RAYBN$21.38
SOUTH$50.07
WEST$49.41
What this shows
Where Houston Hub is
Houston Hub is the average price of a set of buses in ERCOT's Houston load zone, which covers the city and the industrial Gulf Coast around it.
What moves it
Houston leans on a few major transmission paths into the zone, so it prices above the rest of ERCOT when those paths are loaded, especially on hot afternoons and during line outages.
How the averages are measured
Each average is the mean of every 5-minute real-time LMP ERCOT published at the hub in the period, Central time. ERCOT settles on 15-minute settlement point prices built from those same 5-minute prices, so the two track closely but can differ by cents.
What people ask
What is the ERCOT Houston Hub price today?
The panel above shows the latest real-time price at HB_HOUSTON and today's average so far, in $/MWh. It refreshes every minute.
How is the monthly average calculated?
Each average is the mean of every 5-minute real-time LMP ERCOT published at the hub in the period, Central time. ERCOT settles on 15-minute settlement point prices built from those same 5-minute prices, so the two track closely but can differ by cents. Week to date starts on Monday; month to date starts on the 1st.
Is this the day-ahead or the real-time price?
Real time. Day-ahead prices clear a day earlier and usually differ, most of all on days when real-time conditions surprise the forecast.
Sources
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