Zonal day-ahead settlement prices, the gas hubs that set them, and forward strips against your renewal window. The same screens we work from when we build your position.
Indicative forward energy by zone and term length. Retail offers land above these once supplier margin, shaping, losses, and ancillaries are layered in.
| Zone | 12-month | 24-month | 36-month |
|---|---|---|---|
Select a zone above to update the strip.
A representative northeast Texas manufacturer on the Oncor system: roughly 18,000 MWh a year across a single meter, 62% load factor, contract expiring inside twelve months. Move the inputs to see how the three common structures separate.
Load factor is the lever most buyers ignore. Dragging it down raises every structure, because demand charges spread across fewer megawatt-hours.
Spread between fixed and index on these inputs: a year. That gap is not free money — it is the price of budget certainty. Whether it is worth paying depends on whether your organization can absorb a bad summer, not on which number is lower today.
ERCOT runs four competitive load zones — Houston, North, South, and West. Counties in northeast Texas price against LZ_NORTH, alongside Dallas-Fort Worth. West zone covers the Permian and the wind belt, and behaves very differently.
Some far-northeastern counties sit outside ERCOT entirely, in SPP territory, and a handful fall under Rayburn Country Electric Co-op, which has no retail choice at all. Confirming which applies is step one of any review.
Heavy wind generation in West zone regularly exceeds local load and export capacity, pushing overnight prices to zero or below. That flatters the average.
The same congestion produces sharper scarcity spikes when the wind drops. A West-zone facility on an index product sees a far wider monthly range than the annual average suggests — which is exactly the exposure a contract needs to address.
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