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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

How the lights went out on Bulb – and the wrangle over its future

The Bulb app.
The Bulb app. Photograph: GH tech/Alamy

In the quiet confines of a courtroom in the City of London, the future of the government’s biggest bailout since the financial crisis could be determined on Tuesday.

A decision on rubber stamping Octopus’s takeover of the collapsed energy supplier Bulb takes place in the Rolls Building, where commercial disputes are settled. A judge will decide on timing of the energy transfer scheme, effectively deciding how and when Bulb’s 1.5 million customers will find a new home.

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