Featured WISE Member

Bernadette Jendrusch

Bernadette Jendrusch has a passion for turning contaminated lands into beautiful redevelopments and for implementing elegant renewable energy solutions. From environmental cleanup and reconstruction, to managing cutting edge photovoltaic installations, Bernadette orchestrates complex projects like a maestro.

Career Focus: Bernadette’s impressive resume in real estate and redevelopment of salvageable lands includes managing the famous Railyard project in Santa Fe, New Mexico, now reopened to the public as a mixed-use development with businesses, parks and living spaces. She also worked on Denargo Market, an environmentally challenged project in Denver, Colorado, which will create viable living and working spaces and a new riverfront park. Today, as Project Development Manager for SunEdison, Bernadette is responsible for the development of advanced photovoltaic (PV) projects that will power about 54,000 homes-- 24 megawatts of power for Las Cruces and Chaparral, New Mexico, and 30 megawatts in San Antonio, Texas.

Bernadette also is managing the installation of tracker technology from Germany that has never been installed at a utility scale level in the U.S. The “azimuth tracker” allows solar panels to change angles in order to more efficiently capture the sun’s rays, just as a flower follows the sun through the day. This technology will be used in a Las Cruces, New Mexico, PV installation beginning in July. Learn more about the azimuth tracker.

Reason for WISE Involvement: Bernadette came to WISE meetings as part of her quest to make a transition from real estate development into renewable energy project management. She wanted to meet like-minded women and obtain mentoring in how to succeed in an industry where women leaders are not the norm. She came to WISE to learn how others had broken such barriers.

Why She Likes WISE: “The women are just great. Everyone is so friendly and open and willing to help. It’s a wonderful, warm environment filled with very smart women offering an amazing breadth of knowledge across the technology, marketing, business and public policy aspects of renewable energy.”

 

2011 WISE Advisory Board

• Lisa Bingham
• Jamie Dandar
• Theresa Donahue
• Gillian Egan, Vice-president
• Angie Fyfe
• Susan Greene, President
• Susan Innis
• Cindy Jennings
• Amy Lange
• Wendy Larsen
• Lorrie McAllister, Secretary
• Susannah Pedigo
• Kathy Pitts, Treasurer
• Carol Tombari

Contact Us