• Dr Luis Vega, a world expert on OTEC, who has unrivalled experience in system design, construction and hands on monitoring of OTEC research projects.
• The University of Southampton is a world class research institution with strong capabilities in marine, mechanical and energy technologies.

On the project engineering design and implementation:-

• Noble Denton, have global capability in complex marine operations and offshore engineering and by 2010, aspire to be the world's premier provider of life-cycle marine & offshore engineering services to the oil & gas and renewables industries. They offered their services to Energy Island who were pleased to accept.
• Halcrow Power along with the core infrastructure capability in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, provide leading-edge services for all aspects of power engineering, renewable energy, energy management and sustainable buildings, with a long-term corporate commitment to a low-carbon future.
• Parsons Brinckerhoff combines the skills, experience and creativity essential for the total delivery of all types of infrastructure projects - from strategy, planning and engineering to programme and construction management, operation and maintenance. This skill set extends across power generation and major private and public infrastructure projects globally.