{"id":3779,"date":"2021-11-23T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T09:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/too-good-to-be-true-the-rapid-rise-and-costly-fall-of-bulb-energy\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T09:37:41","slug":"too-good-to-be-true-the-rapid-rise-and-costly-fall-of-bulb-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/too-good-to-be-true-the-rapid-rise-and-costly-fall-of-bulb-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Too good to be true\u2019: the rapid rise and costly fall of Bulb Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Challenger company that hoped to win 100 million customers burned through cash as the complaints piled up<\/p>\n<p>Bulb Energy was once the fastest-growing supplier in Britain\u2019s energy market, and one of the UK\u2019s most celebrated startups.<\/p>\n<p>But the company may be best remembered as the biggest casualty of the energy market crisis after it handed the responsibility for supplying gas and electricity to 1.7m homes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/nov\/22\/bulb-energy-which-supplies-17m-customers-collapses-into-administration\">to a special administrator<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/nov\/22\/greenwashing-bulb-energy-critics-collapse-coming\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e10e000a87be94a01149a09916e6dd9a7211132\/413_295_4119_2472\/master\/4119.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=53e6a54bd79b178c804dc04ba5f8c6fc\" title=\"\u2018Too good to be true\u2019: the rapid rise and costly fall of Bulb Energy\" \/>Challenger company that hoped to win 100 million customers burned through cash as the complaints piled up<br \/>\nBulb Energy was once the fastest-growing supplier in Britain\u2019s energy market, and one of the UK\u2019s most celebrated startups.<br \/>\nBut the company may be best remembered as the biggest casualty of the energy market crisis after it handed the responsibility for supplying gas and electricity to 1.7m homes to a special administrator on Monday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenger company that hoped to win 100 million customers burned through cash as the complaints piled up Bulb Energy was once the fastest-growing supplier in Britain\u2019s energy market, and one of the UK\u2019s most celebrated startups. But the company may be best remembered as the biggest casualty of the energy market crisis after it handed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/too-good-to-be-true-the-rapid-rise-and-costly-fall-of-bulb-energy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Too good to be true\u2019: the rapid rise and costly fall of Bulb Energy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}