THE Philippines will need both coal and renewable energy (RE) to meet its power supply requirements, the country’s new energy chief said on Monday.

As a developing country, Philippines cannot afford not to have coal and will need to come up with “a healthy balance of coal and renewable power plants,” Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi said.

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