The Department of Energy said Friday it is deploying artificial intelligence and big data to ensure there is no market collusion when power plants simultaneously go offline.
“If the study showed correlation, that is going to be brought to the attention of the Energy Regulatory Commission and the Philippine Competition Commission. The power plants are aware that we are doing that,” Lotilla said. The system operator National Grid Corp. of the Philippines placed the Luzon grid on red alert from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and yellow alerts from 12 noon to 3 p.m., 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.NGCP said 19 power plants were on forced outage, while three are running on derated capacities for a total of 2,284.3 megawatts unavailable to the grid.