Joshua T. Bledsoe

Mr. Bledsoe’s experience includes advising:

• Ares Management in its acquisition of Burnham RNG, a wastewater and agricultural waste to renewable natural gas project development company
• Chevron USA in its joint venture with Talos Energy and CarbonVert, to develop the Bayou Bend CCS offshore carbon capture and sequestration hub currently held by Talos and CarbonVert
• Chevron USA in connection with the deployment and ongoing financing of a ground-breaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce carbon negative power in Mendota, California
• A private equity-backed midstream infrastructure company in connection with the development and financing of a carbon capture project in Texas that will both geological sequester and utilize carbon dioxide for production of e-fuels
• Summit Carbon Solutions in connection with a CCS project that will lower the carbon intensity of dozens of ethanol production facilities
• Divert to develop and finance three separate food waste-to-biogas production facilities located in York, Pennsylvania, Longview, Washington, and Turlock, California; the biogas will then be upgraded to RNG for direct injection into utility pipelines
• Flame Acquisition Corp. in its business combination with Sable Offshore Corp
• ExxonMobil in connection with its carbon capture and storage agreement with Linde to transport and permanently store up to 2.2 million metric tons a year of CO₂ from Linde’s US$1.8 billion clean hydrogen plant in Beaumont, Texas
• A major LNG project on the Gulf Coast in connection with the permitting of a CCS project for offshore carbon dioxide storage
• Alder Fuels on its joint venture with United and Honeywell to create a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) venture and an associated SAF purchase agreement with United
• Temp-controlled warehouse in connection with groundbreaking regulation of air emissions associated with warehouse operations
• Clean Hydrogen Works in the development of the Ascension Clean Energy hydrogen-ammonia project located in Louisiana
• Woodside Energy in the development of hydrogen production projects located in Oklahoma and California
• Bakken Energy in the development of a US$2.0+ billion hydrogen hub located in North Dakota
• A major energy company on the restoration of 1 million acres of degraded land in the Mississippi Delta
• Consortium investor in connection with US$1.0+ billion preferred equity financing for Blue Source Sustainable Forests Co. (BSFC) and BSFC’s acquisition of 1.7 million acres of timberland, representing one of the largest private conservation-focused forest investments in US history
• Inspiration Mobility in its US$200 million capital commitment from ArcLight Capital Partners and subsequent US$215 million capital commitment from Macquarie Asset Management and Ferrovial for the creation of an electric vehicle (EV) platform
• Numerous hedge funds and private equity funds on trading opportunities in compliance and voluntary carbon markets
• H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies in its business combination with RMG Acquisition Corporation III
• Crimson Renewable Energy in connection with the sale of its used cooking oil collection and aggregation business to Neste, the world's leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel
• Partners Group on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Dimension Renewable Energy, a distributed energy platform focusing on community solar and battery storage across the US
• Partners Group on its acquisition of Resilient Infrastructure Group, a water infrastructure platform, and a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in Oregon
• Vault in the formation of a joint venture with Cardinal Ethanol to design, implement, and operate a carbon capture and sequestration project at Cardinal’s ethanol production facility near Union City, Indiana
• Newlight Technologies in connection with its negotiation and entry into various arrangements with Long Ridge Energy Terminal to construct and build an AirCarbon facility in Ohio
• Energy Capital Partners in its investment in Avolta Renewables, a newly formed joint venture by ECP and Avolta, LLC, a leading developer of renewable natural gas projects, to pursue renewable fuel projects
• 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