Professor Agusti Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Dr Agustí Egea-Àlvarez is a Professor at the electronic & electrical engineering department and a member of the PEDEC (Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Conversion) group. Also, he is Network Operational Perfomance Manager in ScottishPower Energy Networks.
He obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona in 2008, 2010 and 2014 respectively. In 2015 he was a Marie Curie fellow in the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI). In 2016 he joined Siemens Gamesa as converter control engineer working on grid forming controllers and alternative HVDC schemes for offshore wind farms. He is a member of IEEE, IET and has been involved in several CIGRE working groups.
Prize And Awards
- 'Sustainable Impact by Design' Team, Strathclyde Medal
- Recipient
- 2023
- Best Paper wind integration workshop 2019
- Recipient
- 2020
- Teaching Excellence Awards - Best in Faculty – Engineering
- Recipient
- 2019
Publications
- Evaluating inertia estimation methods in low-inertia power systems : a comprehensive review with analytic hierarchy process-based ranking
- Abouyehia Mohamed, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Ahmed Khaled H
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol 217 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.115794
- Mitigating converter thermal stress in PMSG wind turbines using enhanced control strategy and reduced order modeling
- Ahmedi Arsim, Barnes Mike, Ng Chong, McKeever Paul, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí
- IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion Vol 40, pp. 478-489 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tec.2024.3449110
- Investigations on the effects of DC voltage control on inertia provision in HVDC converter stations
- Pang Ying, Gonzalez Juan-Carlos, Perez Filipe, Benchaib Abdelkrim, Shinoda Kosei, Alvarez Agusti Egea
- 2024 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE) , pp. 1-5 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/isgteurope62998.2024.10863708
- Modified droop-based fault current control for grid forming converter during network faults
- Masenge Irene Henry, Xu Lie, Chen Yin, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí
- 2024 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE) IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe) 2024 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/isgteurope62998.2024.10863333
- Blackstart of small islanded renewables for Scottish islands
- Merriweather Joy, Egea-Alvarez Agusti, Xu Lie
- IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2024, pp. 961-965 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2024.3900
- Grid-forming : a control approach to go further offshore?
- Alves Rui, Knuppel Thyge, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí
- Electricity Vol 6 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/electricity6010004
Research Interests
His current research interests are:
- Grid forming and Virtual Synchronous Machine converter control algorithms.
- Control of Voltage Source Converters to weak grids and low inertia systems.
- Alternative HVDC connection schemes for offshore wind farm.
- Control and operation of DC-DC converters for HVDC systems.
Professional Activities
- CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2022
- Demystifying grid forming converters: challenges and opportunities of a new converter control technology
- Speaker
- 6/12/2021
- Demystifying grid forming converters challenges and opportunities of a new converter control technology
- Speaker
- 12/2021
- Power Electronics: The silent technology adding flexibility to the network
- Speaker
- 9/2021
- Energies (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
- 9th IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) 2020
- Participant
- 27/9/2020
Projects
- Shell-iCase protection project | Tan, Agnes Bee Chin
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Tan, Agnes Bee Chin (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2024 | Tan, Agnes Bee Chin
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Tan, Agnes Bee Chin (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Shell-iCase protection project
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2028
- Multi-port DC-DC Converter for Future All-Electric Ships
- Ahmed, Khaled (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
- SIF BLADE - Beta
- Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Khaled (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator) Alves, Rui (Research Co-investigator)
- Linked to 221702 and 231454
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2027
- Hybrid generation load site control and grid code compliance
- Ahmed, Khaled (Principal Investigator) Campos-Gaona, David (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Agusti
Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373