By Louis Goss Shell claimed almost £200m for costs associated with taking on customers whose suppliers had gone bankrupt in 2021, before generating record profits in 2022 on the back of soaring oil and gas prices. Shell’s UK utility business claimed £197m under Ofgem rules for costs linked to picking up 500,000 new customers from five energy suppliers that collapsed due to soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices, The Telegraph first reported. Ofgem’s Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) rules let utility companies reclaim the costs of taking on customers from collapsed suppliers, in a process t…