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Jim Bowe focuses on the energy sector, including regulation of the pipeline, oil and gas, hydrogen/renewable fuels and electric power industries, and commercial matters relating to energy production, transportation, storage and use. Jim advises clients on energy and infrastructure project development and financing, energy and environmental regulatory compliance questions, clean energy incentive regimes and energy transactions. He has handled energy matters in North America, South America and the Middle East.
Jim represents both conventional and renewable energy project developers, owners, operators, investors and lenders, as well as energy shippers and end users. He advises clients in securing authorizations to build and expand energy production, transportation and storage facilities, and in rate and enforcement proceedings before federal, state and territorial regulators. Jim has also represented financial institutions and project developers in connection with the development and financing of U.S. and international energy projects, and in merger and acquisition matters involving energy assets and companies.
Jim counsels clients on energy supply, transportation, storage, asset management and tolling agreement negotiations; permitting issues; energy company reorganizations; and transactions and financings involving natural gas, liquefied natural gas, petroleum, hydrogen and renewable fuels, conventional and renewable electric power generation, electric transmission, and district energy. Jim also assists energy sector clients in addressing environmental permitting and compliance issues (including climate change and Environmental Justice issues) and pipeline safety issues.
Experienced in a wide range of energy sector law, Jim is a frequent speaker, panelist and author. Jim heads King & Spalding’s Hydrogen Initiative, which serves as a clearinghouse for information relating to the evolution of hydrogen as a clean fuel, energy storage medium and renewable energy enabler and the firm’s work in this growing area. Jim has been recognized for two decades as a leading practitioner in the oil & gas sector by publications such as Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.
J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
B.A., Williams College, honors
District of Columbia
American Bar Association
Energy Bar Association
Spanish
October 23, 2024
King & Spalding Earns Top Rankings in Legal 500 Latin America 2025 Guide
June 12, 2024
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2024 Guide
Represents natural gas pipeline companies, natural gas storage companies, midstream companies, LNG terminal developers, and pipeline shippers in a variety of rate, tariff, capacity allocation and export authorization proceedings before the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of the Interior and other U.S. regulators.
Advises developers of conventional and renewable electric generation facilities, hydrogen hub and production facilities, renewable fuels production projects, district energy facilities and energy storage providers on permitting matters, concession arrangements, fuel supply and offtake contract negotiations, regulatory approvals and financing matters.
Represents sponsors and offtakers in the development, permitting, expansion and financing of gas-fired, biomass fueled and wind electric generating facilities and hydrogen hubs in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Brazil, including some of the largest wind generation projects developed to date in Texas; more than a dozen underground natural gas storage projects in the U.S.; numerous natural gas, petroleum and petrochemicals pipeline construction and expansion projects in the U.S. and Canada; several natural gas and oil production facility, gathering system, processing plant and pipeline construction and expansion projects in the U.S. and Canada; liquefied natural gas production, storage, import and export facilities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; hydrogen production, storage and distribution facilities in the U.S. and Canada; and several expansions or conversions of energy pipeline facilities to ethane and other NGLs service.
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June 12, 2024
Beyond the Fenceline: Environmental Justice Updates – June 2024
March 13, 2024
The 45V Hydrogen Tax Credit: Defining Controversy in Clean Energy Policy
January 10, 2024
Guidance on Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit
October 23, 2024
King & Spalding Earns Top Rankings in Legal 500 Latin America 2025 Guide
June 12, 2024
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2024 Guide
Represents natural gas pipeline companies, natural gas storage companies, midstream companies, LNG terminal developers, and pipeline shippers in a variety of rate, tariff, capacity allocation and export authorization proceedings before the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of the Interior and other U.S. regulators.
Advises developers of conventional and renewable electric generation facilities, hydrogen hub and production facilities, renewable fuels production projects, district energy facilities and energy storage providers on permitting matters, concession arrangements, fuel supply and offtake contract negotiations, regulatory approvals and financing matters.
Represents sponsors and offtakers in the development, permitting, expansion and financing of gas-fired, biomass fueled and wind electric generating facilities and hydrogen hubs in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Brazil, including some of the largest wind generation projects developed to date in Texas; more than a dozen underground natural gas storage projects in the U.S.; numerous natural gas, petroleum and petrochemicals pipeline construction and expansion projects in the U.S. and Canada; several natural gas and oil production facility, gathering system, processing plant and pipeline construction and expansion projects in the U.S. and Canada; liquefied natural gas production, storage, import and export facilities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; hydrogen production, storage and distribution facilities in the U.S. and Canada; and several expansions or conversions of energy pipeline facilities to ethane and other NGLs service.
See more
June 12, 2024
Beyond the Fenceline: Environmental Justice Updates – June 2024
March 13, 2024
The 45V Hydrogen Tax Credit: Defining Controversy in Clean Energy Policy
January 10, 2024
Guidance on Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit
October 23, 2024
King & Spalding Earns Top Rankings in Legal 500 Latin America 2025 Guide
June 12, 2024
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2024 Guide
J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
B.A., Williams College, honors
District of Columbia
American Bar Association
Energy Bar Association
Spanish