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                                                                    Exhibit 24.2


                       KINDER MORGAN ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P.
                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned officer or
director 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 (1) the deemed offer and sale of its units to be acquired by
Kinder Morgan i-Company, LLC (the "LLC"), an affiliated limited liability
company, with the net proceeds of the LLC's offering of its limited liability
company interests, and (2) the sale by Kinder Morgan, Inc. of common units of
the Partnership in exchange for limited liability company interests in the LLC,
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 attorney-in-fact and agent, 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-3 (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, 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 16th day of February, 2001.

                                                 /s/ WILLIAM V. MORGAN
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                                                 William V. Morgan



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                       KINDER MORGAN ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P.
                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned officer or
director 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 (1) the deemed offer and sale of its units to be acquired by
Kinder Morgan i-Company, LLC (the "LLC"), an affiliated limited liability
company, with the net proceeds of the LLC's offering of its limited liability
company interests, and (2) the sale by Kinder Morgan, Inc. of common units of
the Partnership in exchange for limited liability company interests in the LLC,
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 attorney-in-fact and agent, 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-3 (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, 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 16th day of February, 2001.

                                                 /s/ GARY L. HULTQUIST
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                                                 Gary L. Hultquist



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                       KINDER MORGAN ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P.
                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned officer or
director 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 (1) the deemed offer and sale of its units to be acquired by
Kinder Morgan i-Company, LLC (the "LLC"), an affiliated limited liability
company, with the net proceeds of the LLC's offering of its limited liability
company interests, and (2) the sale by Kinder Morgan, Inc. of common units of
the Partnership in exchange for limited liability company interests in the LLC,
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 attorney-in-fact and agent, 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-3 (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, 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 16th day of February, 2001.

                                                 /s/ PERRY M. WAUGHTAL
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                                                 Perry M. Waughtal