Joshua T. Bledsoe

Mr. Bledsoe’s experience includes advising:

• A large multinational company on the development, permitting, and structuring of a CCS project in California
• An energy trade association in connection with carbon capture and sequestration policy and strategy
• Monolith Materials on the monetization of the climate benefits attributable to its production of carbon-free hydrogen and carbon black in Nebraska
• Newhall Land and Farming Company on the first-ever large “net zero GHG” master-planned community in California, including developing an anaerobic digester to mitigate climate impacts via dairy biogas capture and beneficial use
• SoCalGas in connection with the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility methane leak and renewable natural gas
• Occidental Petroleum in connection with a proposed Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) project that would utilize CO2 generated by ethanol refineries for enhanced oil recovery to generate 45Q tax credits and LCFS credits
• A natural gas production company utilizing CCS technology to generate LCFS credits
• Element Markets in connection with the LCFS, the California Cap-and-Trade Program, and commercial aspects of renewable natural gas
• A alternative fuels developer in connection with proposed gas-to-liquid production facilities
• California American Water Company in connection with a desalination and water supply project in Monterey County that would achieve net zero GHG emissions
• Poseidon Resources in connection with multiple desalination projects in Southern California Monterey County that would achieve net zero GHG emissions
• Accordant Energy, LLC in connection with a waste-derived, engineered fuel production facility to supply cement production facilities
• SCS Energy, LLC in the development of an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) poly-generation facility with CCS, known as the Hydrogen Energy California Project, in Kern County, California
• Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in the US$1 billion bond financing of the 579-megawatt Solar Star 1 and 2 Projects, awarded as Americas Power Deal of the Year for 2013 by Project Finance International
• A leading international investment bank in the bond financing of the US$2.4 billion, 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farm, awarded as North American Solar Deal of the Year for 2012 by Project Finance
• AES Solar in the project financing of the 200-megawatt Mount Signal Solar Project, located in Imperial County, California
• Goldman Sachs to secure US$1.46 billion US Department of Energy Loan Guarantee to support the 550-megawatt solar photovoltaic Desert Sunlight Project
• CPV Sentinel, LLC, a joint venture of Competitive Power Ventures and GE Energy in the development of the CPV Sentinel Project, an 850-megawatt, natural gas fired, peaking plant located in Riverside County, California
• Summit Midstream Partners, LLC in its US$590 million acquisition of natural gas midstream assets, including 260 miles of pipeline and 90,000 horsepower of compression facilities, from Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of Encana Corporation
• Edison Mission Group in the development of the Walnut Creek Energy Park, a 500-megawatt, natural gas fired peaking power plant to be located in the City of Industry, California
• Rentech, Inc. in the development of the Rialto Renewable Energy Center, which would use gasification technology to convert urban woody green waste into drop-in fuels and electricity
• Pacific Ethanol, Inc. in the development of major corn-based ethanol production facilities in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
• GWF Energy, LLC conversion of the existing Henrietta Peaker Project and Hanford Peaker Project into combined cycle generating facilities
• LS Power Equity Partnership in the acquisition of Duke Energy North America and Mirant generation assets and in the Dynegy Inc. merger
• Chevron Products Company in the modernization of its El Segundo Refinery and in the development of its “Heavy Crude Project”
• Energy Capital Partners in its US$450 million acquisition of three power plants from BG Group