ERCOT
Electric Reliability Council of Texas · Texas
Load, generation by fuel, real-time prices and notices for the Texas power grid, summarised from the public files ERCOT publishes.
StaleAs of ·source: www.ercot.com/api/1/services/read/dashboards/supply-demand.json, www.ercot.com/api/1/services/read/dashboards/fuel-mix.json, www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/current_np6788.html, www.ercot.com/api/1/services/read/dashboards/daily-prc.json, www.ercot.com/news/releases
This reading is stale: the newest figure is more than 2 hours old. Figures below are shown only where the export holds them; for ERCOT’s current state use ercot.com dashboards.
Raw status JSON · figures are copied from ERCOT’s public files; nothing on this page is exclusive.
Live conditions — ERCOT grid conditions
Normal Conditions — There is enough power for current demand. (EEA level 0, PRC 18,704 MW)
as of · source: www.ercot.com
The condition is ERCOT’s own operating state for the Texas grid — normal, a watch when reserves run thin, or an emergency. It is copied from the operator’s notices, not inferred here; where the operator publishes no feed this page can read, it says so rather than guessing.
Load — Texas power grid today
Load is total demand served on the ERCOT system in megawatts. Figures are the values in the export; a dash means the feed did not carry the number, not that it was zero.
as of · source: www.ercot.com
Fuel mix — what the Texas electricity grid runs on
- Natural Gas30,032 MW · 34.8%
- Solar28,347 MW · 32.9%
- Wind15,162 MW · 17.6%
- Coal and Lignite7,539 MW · 8.7%
- Nuclear4,958 MW · 5.7%
- Power Storage142 MW · 0.2%
- Other50 MW · 0.1%
- Hydro43 MW · 0.0%
as of · 5-minute · source: www.ercot.com
Generation by fuel is a single snapshot at its own as-of time, using ERCOT’s own fuel categories. It moves through the day — solar at midday, gas and storage into the evening.
Prices (LMP) — ERCOT real time prices
as of · source: www.ercot.com
A locational marginal price (LMP) is the cost of serving one more megawatt-hour at a given node: energy, plus congestion, plus losses. The spread between the lowest and highest node is congestion on the ERCOT transmission system. Negative prices mean surplus supply, usually wind or solar, at that location.
Map — Texas electrical grid map
ERCOT price map
Real-Time SCED (latest run), settlement point LMP excl. price adders across 1,122 pricing nodes: low -21.90 $/MWh, average 25.95 $/MWh, high 238.78 $/MWh. The export carries no coordinates for these nodes, so the map cannot place them.
Every market on one page: nodal LMP map.
The map colours every ERCOT pricing node by its latest real-time LMP. The power plant and balancing authority maps linked below show what generates inside the ERCOT footprint and where its boundary runs.
Alerts & news — ERCOT news today
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as of · source: www.ercot.com
FAQ — Texas grid status
What is ERCOT?
ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operates the Texas electric grid that carries about 90% of the state’s electric load. It dispatches generation, runs the wholesale market and publishes the ERCOT power grid data summarised on this page.
Is the Texas grid separate from the rest of the US?
Largely, yes. The Texas grid ERCOT runs is its own interconnection, linked to neighbouring grids and Mexico only through a few DC ties. Because its power does not flow synchronously across state lines, the Texas electrical grid’s wholesale market is overseen by the Public Utility Commission of Texas rather than FERC.
What is the Texas power grid status right now?
The Texas power grid status is the condition badge and load figure at the top of this page, as of the timestamp printed beside them. If that timestamp is old the page marks the reading stale. ERCOT’s own dashboard remains the authoritative Texas grid status.
Where can I see the Texas power grid today?
The Load and Fuel mix sections show current demand, the forecast peak and generation by fuel on the Texas power grid today, taken from ERCOT’s public files. ERCOT grid conditions — normal, watch or emergency — come from ERCOT’s own notices.
Is there a live Texas power grid map?
The Map section links to a nodal price map whose ERCOT layer works as a Texas electricity grid map of settlement point prices, plus a Texas electrical grid map of power plants and balancing authorities. It is a Texas power grid map live only up to the as-of time shown.
How are ERCOT real time prices set?
ERCOT real time prices come from its security-constrained economic dispatch, which runs about every five minutes and produces a price at each settlement point; ERCOT settles real-time energy in 15-minute intervals. The Prices section summarises the average, minimum and maximum of the latest interval.
Is this the official ERCOT dashboard?
No. The official ERCOT dashboard lives on ercot.com. This page is an independent summary of the same public data, with a timestamp and a source link on every figure. Services such as gridstatus ERCOT views draw on the same public feeds — nothing here is exclusive.
Where can I read ERCOT news today?
The Alerts & news section lists the notices ERCOT issued in the latest capture — conservation appeals, watches and emergency notices — each linked to ERCOT’s original. For announcements beyond grid operations, ERCOT’s newsroom on ercot.com is the source.