BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 16:31:00
All. hello, good afternoon. the household energy supplier 0ctopus is to buy its competitor bulb — the largest energy company to collapse amid soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices last year. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping bulb afloat since then. now, 0ctopus has agreed a deal to take on the company's one and a half million customers. our business eeporter ramzan kamali has the details. the energy market was in disarray this time last year. dozens of firms went bust as energy prices soared. the regulator, 0fgem, increased what was then known as the energy price cap...