EXHIBIT 24
 
Power of Attorney
 
The undersigned directors and officers, as indicated respectively below, of Tortoise Capital Resources Corporation (the “Company”), each hereby constitutes and appoints Terry C. Matlack, David J. Schulte and P. Bradley Adams, each of them, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to execute in his or her name and on his or her behalf in any and all capacities the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, any and all amendments thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and any and all instruments, documents or agreements which such attorneys and agents, or any of them, deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply with the 1933 Act, the rules, regulations and requirements of the SEC, and the securities or Blue Sky laws of any state or other jurisdiction and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC and such other jurisdictions, and the undersigned each hereby ratify and confirm as his own act and deed any and all acts that such attorneys and agents, or any of them, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. Any one of such attorneys and agents has, and may exercise, all of the powers hereby conferred.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has hereunto set his or her hand as of the 21st day of  September, 2011.
 
SIGNATURES:                                                                           TITLE:
 
 
/s/ H. Kevin Birzer          
 H. Kevin Birzer
 
   Director and Chairman of the Board      
/s/ Conrad S. Ciccotello           
 Conrad S. Ciccotello  
 
   Director      
/s/ John R. Graham          
 John R. Graham 
 
   Director      
/s/ Charles E. Heath           
 Charles E. Heath  
 
   Director      
/s/ David J. Schulte          
 David J. Schulte  
 
   Chief Executive Officer      
/s/ Terry C. Matlack            
 Terry C. Matlack   
 
   Chief Executive Officer