Octopus to repay £3bn of Bulb nationalisation costs after supplier’s collapse

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Octopus became the largest electricity supplier in the UK, with 6.9mn customers, as a result of the takeover Octopus Energy will pay the UK government an early £3bn windfall after the company promised...

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