The rehabilitation of the Agus-Pulangi hydro power plants in Mindanao — a project the Philippines wants China to fund — will cost around P54 billion, the Finance department said.

“Let us do it now [because] we are not under pressure,” Dominguez said in a statement on Friday where he also noted that rehabilitation would increase the country’s power supply and extend the power plants’ service life.

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