Two small suppliers cease trading

Small suppliers Gnergy and Better Energy have ceased trading.

Nottingham-based Better Energy was one of nine companies in breach of the requirement to be Data Communications Company (DCC) users. It gave up its supply licence in February and went into administration on 13 March.

Gnergy was set up in 2013 by retired army major Tikendra Dewan who in 2009 led a campaign to win the right for Gurkhas to live and work in the UK.Gnergy failed to make its Renewables Obligation payments.

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