About Us
Legal identity, corporate purpose, and governance context for the company that holds the Hornsdale renewable energy asset.
Legal entity and registration
HORNSDALE ASSET CO PTY LTD is a proprietary company registered in Australia. It was registered from 20 May 2015 to hold and steward the Hornsdale renewable energy asset as a distinct legal person separate from developers, constructors, and energy retailers. The company’s registered office is NSW 2000. That is the sole address for statutory correspondence, investor notices routed through company secretarial functions, and regulatory mail identified to the asset owner.
Telephone contact is 02 0000 0000. Email contact is contact@hornsdaleasset.com.au. Messages should include a subject line stating whether the enquiry relates to compliance, investment, grid coordination, legal process, or community matters so that correspondence can be directed without delay.
ABN and ACN identifiers are confirmed on request through Contact. Counterparties who already hold executed transaction documents should rely on the identifiers contained in those instruments.
| Legal name | HORNSDALE ASSET CO PTY LTD |
|---|---|
| Registered from | 20 May 2015 |
| Registered office | NSW 2000, Australia |
| Telephone | 02 0000 0000 |
| contact@hornsdaleasset.com.au | |
| Website | hornsdaleasset.com.au |
| ABN / ACN | Available on request through Contact |
Why a special purpose vehicle exists
Large renewable projects are often financed through non-recourse or limited-recourse structures that require a clean ownership envelope. Lenders and equity investors expect a company whose constitutional documents restrict activity to owning, maintaining, and dealing with the project assets and related contracts. HORNSDALE ASSET CO PTY LTD exists within that tradition: it is not a diversified trading house, not an engineering consultancy, and not a retailer of electricity to households.
The SPV model concentrates risk disclosure. Regulators examining exemption applications or market participation rules can address the owner entity directly. Community groups seeking the accountable party for land use and benefit programmes can identify HORNSDALE ASSET CO PTY LTD as the owner of record.
Asset scope
The company’s asset scope is the Hornsdale renewable energy project in South Australia, encompassing wind generation and integrated energy storage as held and described in transaction and operations documentation. Technical narratives, capacity context, and component-level briefs appear under Our Asset, including six focused pages on wind generation, storage integration, grid connection, operational performance, environmental management, and regulatory milestones. Those pages discuss challenges, mitigations, and outcomes from an owner’s viewpoint rather than from an equipment supplier’s marketing perspective.
Board and governance
Directorships, committee structures, and related party disclosures required by law are summarised when a public release is required. Governance information is presented for regulators and investors who need structural facts about the owner of the Hornsdale asset.
Major decisions affecting the asset—refinancing, change of control, material contract assignment, or significant environmental incidents—are communicated through formal notices where required and through News & Insights when a public statement is appropriate.
Corporate principles
- Single registered office at NSW 2000 for all categories of correspondence.
- Publication of compliance registers and asset briefs that can be traced to dated source documents.
- Respect for agricultural landscapes and local communities adjacent to the Hornsdale project.
- No retail energy sales or consumer account services.
- Long-horizon stewardship of a physical asset whose operational life extends across decades.
Related information
Compliance & Regulatory holds AER-related listings and exemption references. Community describes programmes and environmental themes at a stakeholder level. Contact provides enquiry routing. News & Insights contains nine owner commentaries—including insurance, land access, and refinancing disclosure—alongside SPV transparency, market participation, storage dispatch, AER obligations, community commitments, and long-term stewardship.
Counterparties performing initial screening should read the registration table above, then the asset overview and regulatory milestones brief before requesting identifiers or board materials through Contact. The company responds to structured enquiries that identify organisation, subject matter, and required response format.
Registration and identifiers
Questions about legal identity and public records.
How is HORNSDALE ASSET CO PTY LTD different from the project operator?
When are ABN and ACN details provided?
Can correspondence be sent to a state office near the project?
Governance and disclosures
Board, related parties, and public releases.
Where are directorship and related party summaries published?
How are material asset events communicated?
Does About Us replace audited financial statements?
Counterparty perspectives
Themes from advisers reviewing SPV structure during Hornsdale diligence.
“Constitutional restrictions to asset holding are described plainly. That reduces ambiguity about what the SPV can covenant in finance documents.”
“Registration from 2015 aligns with staged wind development timelines. Linking asset briefs to owner risk rather than OEM claims helps technical advisors.”