Gopa Kumar
S. Gopa Kumar is an electrical engineer having 30 years of experience specialising in Safety, Standardisation, and Legal Requirements of electrical installations. He is the founder and Managing Director of CAPE ELECTRIC PVT LTD, a company registered in India, having 450 employees, carrying out business of manufacturing, testing, erection and verification of Lightning protection system.
He is the President of National Federation of Engineers for Electrical Safety, a not-for-profit organisation working on electrical safety. He was the technical coordinator of Lightning Awareness and Research Centre (LARC), Trivandrum. The Centre conducted 100’s of training classes in Kerala on lightning protection from 2004 onwards. He has personally carried out more than 1000 training seminars and over 100 accident investigations in various Nations.
He is a member in the working groups of the following Indian and IEC technical committees
Bureau of Indian Standards
- ETD 20 (National Electrical Code, IS732, IS3043, IS/IEC 62305)
- ETD 30 (surge Arresters), ETD 50 (LVDC)
- National Building Code-2016 (electrical committee),
- ETD 32 (Electrical Appliances)
- ETD 50 (LVDC)
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
- TC64: Electrical safety and shock protection (MT 3, MT 12, MT40, MT 41, PT 60364-8-3, WG 43.)
- TC81: Lightning protection of structures (ahG 19, MT 3, MT 14, MT 21, WG 18)
- SC 37 A: SPD’s for Lightning protection of electronics (WG03 & WG05)
- SyC LVDC: WG 01
He has published articles about shock protection and fire from electricity in various magazines and published the book, THE MISSING LINK, in the subject of electrical safety and Guide on Electrical safety in Medical Locations.
His works can be found on www.vidyutsuraksha.com or www.nfees.org and www.linkedin.com/in/gopa0904
