HESC is led by a consortium of experienced industry partners from Japan and Australia: Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd (KHI), Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER), Iwatani Corporation (Iwatani), Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni), AGL Energy (AGL) and Sumitomo Corporation (Sumitomo), and is supported by the Victorian, Australian and Japanese Governments. Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) is also involved in the Japanese portion of the project.