The huge battery and solar scheme in Bundey South Australia has been given the red carpet treatment by the Albanese government. It will be fast tracked as a priority by the government and cash will rain down from the "Capital Investment Scheme (CIS)" .

The group running the project is Ganaspi Energy. Supposedly it is based in Sydney, except that when the Daily Telegraph visited the office there, it was empty. No one was responding to emails or text messages, and the phone number didn't connect. If this company was a ghost corporation, or a front for Chinese interests, they don't seem to be trying hard to disguise it?

Ganaspi Energy has brought in several Chinese firms, and held a party with some them in Suzhou to celebrate. Supposedly, the Bundey BESS and Solar project will be the largest battery storage power station in the Southern Hemisphere.

Taxpayers are underwriting the project for the first 15 years.

Revealed: Net Zero project's major links to Chinese business

By James Willis, The Daily Telegraph

National security expert Michael Shoebridge, a director at Strategic Analysis Australia, said it appeared the Chinese Government had successfully completed a "backdoor Belt and Road Initiative" with an Australian company.

"The Chinese Government can by law direct its companies to hand over all its data and even interrupt the operation of its systems," Mr Shoebridge said.

Two of the suppliers are the China Energy Engineering Corporation, and CEEC Energy Storage Technology, both of which are owned by the Chinese Communist Party. Indeed, the CEEC is listed as a stakeholder of the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative).