Mike Frerker
Vice President, Engineering
 

Mr. Frerker is responsible for engineering support of Invenergy’s wind and natural gas operating projects and development pipeline.  On the development side this support can include everything from layouts, collection system sizing, large equipment specification, wind studies, and energy estimates. The operations side is focused on optimization of the assets, performance and condition monitoring, and problem troubleshooting.  With Invenergy since 2004, Mr. Frerker has had some involvement in nearly every project built in that time.

 

Prior to joining Invenergy, Mr. Frerker was a thermal performance engineer for Calpine.  His responsibilities included the testing and monitoring of the thermal performance of a fleet of gas fired generating assets.  Mr. Frerker performed similar duties as a combustion turbine engineer for Westinghouse, and a consultant for McHale and Associates.  Prior to graduate school he worked for automotive parts supplier T.G.(U.S.A.) as a manufacturing engineer.

 

Mr. Frerker has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.