AMONG the highlights in President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte’s State of the Nation Address was the possible resurrection of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) to bring down the cost of electricity in the country.

The inordinately high cost of electricity has driven or discouraged foreign companies from setting up their factories here.

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