Senator Sherry: The Minister for Resources and Energy has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question: Government grants for a range of clean energy technologies typically support the development of technology options which would not otherwise be commercially available to the market. The HRL Dual Gas project was selected for grant funding under the Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund (LETDF) which also supports other technology demonstration projects including renewable projects. Developing clean energy technologies is challenging and bringing these technologies to market so they are competitive in their own right takes time. As the HRL project has yet to meet its condition precedent and no Commonwealth LETDF grant funding has been received by the HRL project it is difficult to see how this could influence or 'crowd out' investment in other forms of low emitting or renewable technology that are commercially available.