Alinta Energy penalty notices 2018 (explicit informed consent)

Alinta Energy Retail Sales Pty Ltd, trading as Alinta Energy, has paid penalties totalling $300,000 following the issue of 15 penalty notices by the commission. The commission alleged that Alinta Energy, through its marketing agents, had failed on 15 separate occasions to obtain the explicit informed consent of customers before arranging to transfer them to Alinta Energy contracts.