Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Kinder Morgan Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the delegate of Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is the general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"), in connection with the registration by the Partnership of the sale of common units, hereby constitutes and appoints Joseph Listengart and C. Park Shaper, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, for the undersigned and on the undersigned's behalf and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission the Partnership's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (or other appropriate form), together with all amendments thereto, with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto with any regulatory authority, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereto signed this power of attorney this 19th day of January, 2005.

  /s/ Gary L. Hultquist

Gary L. Hultquist

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Kinder Morgan Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the delegate of Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is the general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"), in connection with the registration by the Partnership of the sale of common units, hereby constitutes and appoints Joseph Listengart and C. Park Shaper, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, for the undersigned and on the undersigned's behalf and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission the Partnership's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (or other appropriate form), together with all amendments thereto, with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto with any regulatory authority, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereto signed this power of attorney this 19th day of January, 2005.

  /s/Perry M. Waughtal

Perry M. Waughtal

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Kinder Morgan Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the delegate of Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is the general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"), in connection with the registration by the Partnership of the sale of common units, hereby constitutes and appoints Joseph Listengart and C. Park Shaper, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, for the undersigned and on the undersigned's behalf and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission the Partnership's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (or other appropriate form), together with all amendments thereto, with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto with any regulatory authority, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereto signed this power of attorney this 19th day of January, 2005.

  /s/ Edward O. Gaylord

Edward O. Gaylord