Estimate only
Every cost and break-even figure here is a quick estimate to help you read the real-time grid — not a number to run your business on. Your true break-even depends on fuel, labor, contracts, demand charges, and product margin that only your own books capture. Get your break-even price from your accounting or finance department, and confirm power costs against your contract before you curtail or run on it.
GRIDGLANCER
ERCOT real-time power cost
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Live Texas power prices for your facility — find your break-even, watch demand-charge and 4CP peak windows, and see when curtailing pays.
Wholesale energy only. Your delivered bill also carries transmission/delivery (TDU), ancillary, ERCOT admin, and your retailer's adder — so the real number is higher. This is a "should I be running heavy loads right now" gut-check, not a bill.
My curtail line
When the live price crosses your line, the status light goes red. Pick the point where running stops making sense for you.
Advanced — break-even calculator
The power price where running stops paying — where electricity eats the whole margin on what you're making. Uses your load (kW) from above.
Break-even price
—$/MWh
— ¢/kWh
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Margin per unit = your sale price minus everything except electricity (materials, labor, etc.). The price shown on this site is wholesale — set the adder to your delivery/ancillary cost per MWh so break-even reflects your real bill.
Texas power cost, in plain English
This shows the live wholesale price of electricity for your part of the Texas grid — the number big industrial buyers watch to decide when it's smart to run heavy equipment.
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Green — power's cheap right now. Good time to run.
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Amber — climbing. Worth keeping an eye on.
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Red — expensive. If you can pause big loads, this is when it pays off.
Who delivers your power? (it's on your bill — look for the "delivery" or "TDU" charges, not the company that bills you)
Not sure — let me pick by region or settlement point
Pick the area that fits you:
Not every Texas address is on the ERCOT grid. If your utility is Entergy Texas (Beaumont / Conroe area), El Paso Electric, or a far-Panhandle co-op, your price isn't set here and this tool won't match your bill.
Advanced — exact settlement point:
A couple of utilities (Oncor, TNMP) cross zone lines, so this is a close match, not gospel — you can change it anytime, and the exact point your facility settles on is printed on your bill.