‘Too good to be true’: the rapid rise and costly fall of Bulb Energy

Challenger company that hoped to win 100 million customers burned through cash as the complaints piled up

Bulb Energy was once the fastest-growing supplier in Britain's energy market, and one of the UK's most celebrated startups.

But the company may be best remembered as the biggest casualty of the energy market crisis after it handed the responsibility for supplying gas and electricity to 1.7m homes to a special administrator on Monday.