 And so in 2007, Lockheed Martin resumed work in OTEC and became a subcontractor to Makai to support their SBIR, which was followed by other subsequent collaborations

In March 2011, Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation signed an Energy Services Agreement (ESA) with the Baha Mar resort, Nassau, Bahamas, for the world's first and largest seawater air conditioning (SWAC) system.In June 2015, the project was put on pause while the resort resolved financial and ownership issues.In August 2016, it was announced that the issues had been resolved and that the resort would open in March 2017.