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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Nils Pratley

EXPLAINED: The only easy decision for bulb s future stop paying its ceo | Vintage Vibes

Hayden Wood in a suit looking serious.
Hayden Wood, the founder of Bulb Energy, apologised for its collapse last November. Photograph: House of Commons

Five months after special administrators were appointed at Bulb in an act of quasi-nationalisation, the government is discovering a few truths that should have been obvious on day one.

There isn’t a long queue of would-be buyers willing to pay good money for a failed energy supplier with 1.7 million customers when wholesale markets are still in turmoil. Taxpayers’ financial exposure is only increasing with every passing month.

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