Joel Pertzsch, P.E.

Research & Evaluation Engineering Lead

My obsession with energy efficiency and energy conservation started in college, and it has only become stronger over time. My job has not only allowed me to help customers optimize their energy use to save costs and reduce their environmental impact, but it has helped me gain perspective about how all the little things we do impact the natural world around us. As an avid outdoorsman, anything that I can do to help people be more stewardly of our natural resources and preserve them for generations to come is always worth the effort.

Joel joined the Michaels team in 2011 as part of the Research & Evaluation group. He has extensive experience with utility program evaluation, energy monitoring and data logging, building energy models, and utility market studies. Joel also helps the Michaels team with energy audits and custom rebate analyses and manages the company’s inventory of data loggers and other field equipment.

Joel graduated from Dordt University in 2011 with bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Physics. He is a licensed P.E. in the state of Wisconsin.

Outside of work you can often find him building something in the workshop, exploring state & national parks, fishing, or in the garage restoring old cars.