Kyoto Energy Park (Scone) once held the lease for a $190 million wind farm. It is now one of 13 companies in administration.

Kyoto Energy Park (Scone) Pty Ltd, ACN 120 314 034, entered voluntary administration on 13 October, one of ten companies on a single ASIC notice.

Four days earlier, the same administrators, Sule Arnautovic and Jessica Perri of Salea Advisory, were appointed to three more companies, including Pamada Group Holdings Pty Ltd, ACN 624 172 907. That makes 13 companies under one set of administrators, three of them carrying the Pamada name.

The company has a history the notice does not mention. Under its first name, Kyoto Energy Park Company Pty Ltd, it held the long-term lease for a wind, solar and hydro project west of Scone. The project's environmental assessment says it had agreed a lease with the landowner "to seek approval for, construct, own and operate" the facility. In 2010, the NSW Government approved the project and announced it as a $190 million wind and solar farm.

The project still exists, under another name and another owner. It became Upper Hunter Energy Park in 2018, and its website says Maven Renewable Energy Pty Ltd has owned it since 2022. Maven is not named in either notice.

What the public records do not show is how that 2022 acquisition was made, and so whether the company now in administration kept any part of the project, including the lease it once held.

If your lease, contract or invoice says Kyoto or Pamada, the ACN on it decides whether your counterparty is in administration. One of those numbers needs checking twice: the notice for the ten companies appointed on 13 October prints Pamada Australia Pty Limited's ACN as 633 827 496. No company holds that number, and it fails the check-digit test every ACN must pass. The register lists Pamada Australia Pty Limited as ACN 663 827 496, one digit different. Any record keyed on the printed number points to no company on the register.

Is Kyoto Energy Park in administration? The company Kyoto Energy Park (Scone) Pty Ltd is, from 13 October. The wind project once called Kyoto Energy Park is now Upper Hunter Energy Park, and its website names a different owner. The public records do not show whether the company keeps any interest in it.

Voluntary administration is not liquidation. The administrators take control of each company, investigate its affairs and report to its creditors. Under the Corporations Act they must then call a second meeting, ordinarily within about five weeks of their appointment, at which creditors decide whether each company executes a deed of company arrangement, returns to its directors or is wound up.

The first creditors' meetings are online. The three companies appointed on 9 October meet at 11am on 21 October, with proofs and proxies due by 5pm on 20 October. The ten appointed on 13 October meet at 11am on 23 October, with proofs and proxies due by 5pm on 22 October.

Each company appointed the administrators by its own resolution. The notices list the companies together so their meetings can be held at the same time. They do not set out how the companies are related, and a shared set of administrators does not mean shared debts.

The oldest is Bob No. 4, registered in 2004. Kyoto Energy Park (Scone) followed in June 2006 and Pamada Group Services in August 2007. The newest, Heifer Estate, was registered in June 2023.

On 31 January 2010, the NSW Minister for Planning approved project application 06_0055. The approval names the proponent as Pamada Pty Limited and the project as a renewable energy facility of up to 113 megawatts at two sites, Middlebrook and Mountain Stations, in the Upper Hunter Shire: up to 34 wind turbines, between 3 and 10 megawatts of solar panels and a one-megawatt closed-loop hydro plant.

The Premier's media release of 10 February 2010 called it "a $190 million wind and solar farm" that would power more than 47,000 homes, said it would be constructed by Pamada Pty Ltd, and promised 183 construction jobs.

The project's environmental assessment, prepared by Pamada Pty Ltd as proponent, describes the land. Both stations were private freehold held by a single landowner: Mountain Station of about 1,995 hectares and Middlebrook Station of about 2,032 hectares. It then names the company now in administration: "The Kyoto Energy Park Company Pty Ltd have entered into a long term lease agreement with the landowner to seek approval for, construct, own and operate the Kyoto Energy Park throughout the life of the facility."

The Australian Business Register records Kyoto Energy Park Company Pty Ltd as the company's name until 26 November 2008, when it became Kyoto Energy Park (Scone) Pty Ltd. Same company, same ACN.

A lease is not land. The company did not own the 4,000 hectares, and no company of the exact name Pamada Pty Limited, the named proponent, is among the 13.

Works on the project began early. The project's website says construction physically began in December 2014 with an upgrade of the access road to Mountain Station.

Then the project changed hands and shape:

The project's August 2026 update says planning, environmental surveys and community consultation are continuing. None of that is evidence that construction has started or that the project is financed. It does show the project moving ahead under Maven while the company that once held its lease is in administration.

Between the lease described in the environmental assessment and the October administration sits the 2022 acquisition, and the public records do not describe it.

They do not show whether Maven bought a company, bought the project's assets, or took a new or assigned lease from the landowner. They do not show whether Kyoto Energy Park (Scone) kept any rights, contracts or debts connected with the project, or what it holds now.

What the notice does show is the company's place in the administration: it is listed with the Pamada companies, not with Maven.

For anyone owed money, the 2010 figure is history, not a measure of the company's assets. $190 million was the announced value of a project that has since been redesigned and has a different owner.

Three of the 13 were registered on the same day, 1 February 2018: Pamada Group Holdings, Pabama, and the company now called ACN 624 161 539 Pty Limited, which the notice records was formerly Pafama Pty Ltd.

Pamada, Pabama and Pafama differ by one letter. The administration also covers two companies whose names begin Renuon: Renuon Pty Ltd, appointed on 9 October, and Renuon Group Holdings Pty Ltd, appointed on 13 October. They have different ACNs and different meeting dates.

For a credit team, a name search across these companies is a poor tool. A search for Pamada misses Pabama and the renamed Pafama company. A search for Renuon returns two companies on two notices with two proof deadlines. The ACN is the only reliable key, and for Pamada Australia it has to be taken from the register, not from the notice.

Hollydeen Solar is a second energy name, and Y Group Mudgee names a town. The notices do not say what any of the companies does.

On the Australian Business Register in September, 11 of the 13 no longer held GST registration. Six of those registrations ended on the same date, 1 April 2025. Kyoto Energy Park (Scone)'s ran from June 2006 to 31 July 2024.

Only Pamada Group Holdings and Pamada Group Services were still registered for GST.

A company commonly cancels its GST registration when it stops making taxable sales, and the register records no reason. It does help suppliers and customers: an invoice that charged GST should carry the ABN of a company registered for GST on that date, and that ABN identifies which of the 13 issued it.

The administrators' reports to creditors will start to answer those questions. Until then, the company name is where a search starts, and the ACN, checked against the register rather than copied from a notice, is where it ends.

We publish public-record information, not advice. The administrators are the authoritative source on the administrations, and nothing here is a statement about any party's conduct or claim, or about the ownership of the Upper Hunter Energy Park beyond what its own records state.