{"id":458285,"date":"2021-12-24T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T05:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458285"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:17:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T05:47:52","slug":"uk-energy-companies-get-billions-to-take-clients-of-failed-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-energy-companies-get-billions-to-take-clients-of-failed-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"UK energy companies get billions to take clients of failed rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK regulator has approved 1.8 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) of claims to compensate energy companies for taking on millions of customers left stranded as dozens of rival suppliers went bust.<\/p>\n<p>About 24 household suppliers have collapsed since early August as wholesale gas prices soared and the energy regulator\u2019s price cap limited the costs that could be passed on to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK regulator has approved 1.8 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) of claims to compensate energy companies for taking on millions of customers left stranded as dozens of rival suppliers went bust. About 24 household suppliers have collapsed since early August as wholesale gas prices soared and the energy regulator\u2019s price cap limited the costs that could be passed on to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}