Demise of UK suppliers hits end-users hard
The UK's only two independent electricity suppliers, Electricity4Business (E4B) and BizzEnergy, both went into financial administration in successive weeks in late October and early November. Both companies had 40,000-strong customer bases, with E4B's made up of small and medium-sized businesses, and BizzEnergy portfolio centred around larger industrials.
Unlike the UK's 'Big Six' vertically integrated suppliers, neither company owned generation assets, and relied on buying power from the
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