Peter Carpenter has over 38 years’ experience in electronic engineering and lightning protection. Since 1988, Peter has been the Director of Applied Engineering at Lightning Eliminators and Consultants. Peter’s responsibilities have been applying his expertise in site surveys and analysis. As a consultant, Peter has assisted in numerous field evaluations to solve past bonding, grounding, power conditioning, and lightning-related electronic failures.

He has presented several technical papers throughout the U.S. on the results of his and LEC’s tests and studies. These papers were presented to chapters of the IEEE, SBE, utilities conferences, professional engineering bodies, and other engineering concerns. Peter is a member of NFPA and IEEE and is currently on the NFPA 780 Committee.

Peter has also conducted numerous site inspections and surveys as a consultant for industrial and commercial facilities for the purposes of evaluating lightning protection, grounding, and surge suppression systems. These site inspections have included chemical production plants, refineries, data centers, power generating stations, substations and airports.

Peter received his electrical engineering education at Cerritos College, Norwalk, California.