British Gas to take on 90,000 customers of collapsed Rebel Energy

British Gas lost its position as the UK’s largest household energy supplier to Octopus Energy in January. Photograph: Simon Dack/Alamy

British Gas will take on 90,000 customers left without an energy supplier after Rebel Energy went bust earlier this month.

On Sunday, the industry regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, appointed British Gas to begin supplying gas and electricity to 84,000 household customers and 6,000 businesses.