Jake Silver

Associate

Corporate

Overview

Jake is a member of Vinson & Elkins’ worldwide Corporate practice group. His principal areas of practice are project development, complex commercial agreements, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Jake has experience in multiple sectors of the energy industry, including electric power, LNG, midstream oil and gas, and renewables.

Energy – Electric Power

Talen Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: TLN) on its 1,920 MW power purchase agreement and associated arrangements with Amazon Web Services to provide carbon-free energy from Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant to support AMZN’s announced $20 plus billion dollar data center build out in Pennsylvania
Power project developers and operators, utilities, and end-users in the negotiation of PPAs and other power project development matters
Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. in connection with a preferred equity commitment to Origis USA (a portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure Partners)
Power project developers, data center developers, and AI companies on power supply issues for different digital infrastructure projects around the country

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New Fortress Energy in the $1.055 billion sale to Excelerate Energy, Inc. of its Jamaican businesses, including an LNG import terminal in Montego Bay, offshore floating storage and regasification terminal in Old Harbour, and 150 MW Combined Heat and Power Plant in Clarendon, along with the associated infrastructure
LNG suppliers, purchasers, and marketers in the negotiation of LNG SPAs, tolling agreements, and gas supply arrangements
Kimmeridge in its acquisition of Commonwealth LNG, a project company developing an LNG liquefaction and export facility
Golden Pass LNG in the restructuring and renegotiation of its EPC arrangements for the completion of the Golden Pass LNG project, following the bankruptcy of Zachry Holdings

Targa Resources Corporation in its establishment of a joint venture with WPC Parent, LLC in respect of the 2.5 Bcf/d Blackcomb Pipeline in Texas
Trace Midstream Partners, a portfolio company of Quantum Capital Group, in its acquisition of LM Energy Delaware’s natural gas gathering and transportation assets in the Northern Delaware Basin
Terminal operator in contracting arrangements for the terminalling, storage, and export of LPGs, bunkering fuels and other petrochemicals

Capabilities

Credentials

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. magna cum laude, 2022 (Georgetown Law Journal; Order of the Coif)
Brandeis University, B.A., Economics with Highest Honors and History summa cum laude, 2016 (Phi Beta Kappa)

Admissions

District of Columbia

Insights

Event Recaps

Structuring a Data Center

This program explored data center power supply structures and considerations.

September 1, 2026

September 1, 2026 • 1-minute read

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Client Alerts

Four Key Predictions for FERC’s 2024 Electricity Agenda

Over the past few years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) and the Department of Energy (“DOE”) have proposed many rules to support the Biden Administration’s push to build transmission infrastructure to ensure reliability and support new sources of generation.

January 16, 2024 • V&E Energy Update

January 16, 2024 • 1-minute read

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Client Alerts

DOE Proposes New and Modified NEPA Categorical Exclusions for Certain Storage, Transmission and Solar Projects

On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NOPR”) that would amend DOE’s regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) to add a categorical exclusion for certain energy storage systems and revise existing categorical exclusions for solar photovoltaic (“PV”) facilities and for upgrades and rebuilds of transmission lines on previously disturbed or developed land.

November 22, 2023 • V&E Energy Update

November 22, 2023 • 3-minute read

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Client Alerts

Increased FERC Enforcement of Rules Governing Capitalizing of Overhead Expenses for Electric Utilities and Gas Pipelines

We have recently seen an increase in audits by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) Office of Enforcement (“OE”) that take issue with the way electric utilities and interstate natural gas pipelines allocate overhead costs to construction projects.

November 16, 2023 • V&E Energy Update

November 16, 2023 • 3-minute read

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Client Alerts

Further Evidence of the Re-Solidification of FERC’s Driftwood Compromise

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC” or “Commission”) October 18, 2023 Open Meeting (the “October Open Meeting”) and October 27, 2023 issuance of rehearing of remand orders for the Texas LNG Brownsville LLC and joint Rio Grande, LLC and Rio Bravo Pipeline Company, LLC projects provide further evidence of the re-solidification of the Driftwood Compromise we discussed in our earlier update following the September 21, 2023 Open Meeting (the “September Open Meeting”).

November 1, 2023 • V&E Energy Update

November 1, 2023 • 4-minute read

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