Monthly average price
- Real-time
- Day-ahead
USD/MWh, mean of each month’s complete hours at the hub.
ERCOT hourly prices through August 2026.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas
ERCOT power prices
Hub prices, negative-price hours and the plant fleet, 2025 and 2026 to August.
- North Hub real-time, 2025
- $32.01 /MWh
- North Hub day-ahead, 2025
- $32.94 /MWh
- North Hub real-time, 2026 to Aug
- $31.57 /MWh
- Negative real-time hours at plant nodes, 2025
- 6.0%
ERCOT hourly prices through August 2026 · EIA-860M August 2026 · Updated 2026-10-27
Hub prices
4 hubs, January 2025 to August 2026.
Hours with negative real-time prices
- Plant nodes782 nodes
- North Hub
Negative node-hours over valid node-hours, real-time.
Real-time prices at 782 pricing nodes linked to plants. Node names are part of Pro.
| Hub | 2025 real-time | 2025 day-ahead | 2026 to Aug real-time | 2026 to Aug day-ahead | Negative hours, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Hub | $32.01 | $32.94 | $31.57 | $34.67 | 2.6% |
| South Hub | $32.01 | $32.84 | $30.63 | $33.59 | 2.7% |
| West Hub | $32.87 | $33.74 | $28.46 | $31.84 | 7.3% |
| Houston Hub | $33.04 | $34.47 | $32.23 | $35.38 | 1.6% |
Plant fleet
- Operating plants
- 987
- Nameplate
- 179 GW
- Plants with hourly node prices
- 624 of 987
- States
- 2
Nameplate by fuel
- Natural gas68 GW38%
- Wind41 GW23%
- Solar33 GW18%
- Battery storage18 GW10%
- Coal13 GW7%
- Nuclear5.1 GW3%
- Other1.2 GW1%
- Hydro0.5 GW0%
EIA-860M August 2026, operating projects by ISO region.Open the map
Largest plants
Nameplate, all generators and batteries.Plants by state