Professor Agusti Egea Alvarez

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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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.

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Publications

Analysis of interactions in offshore wind farm transmission system utilizing DR-MMC rectifier
Chen Yin, Chen Yuntao, Yang Ning, Xu Lie, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Chen Xia
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, pp. 1-13 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrd.2025.3600333
Large-Signal Stability Analysis of Grid-Forming Wind Turbine Connected to DRU-HVDC
Yu Lujie, Fu Ziyu, Zhu Jiebei, Chen Yin, Li Rui, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Adam Grain P, Xu Lie
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1109/tste.2025.3597798
A novel fractional-order damping control method for enhancing synchronization in grid-forming converters
Abouyehia Mohamed, Colak Ayse, Nasser Reem, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Ahmed Khaled H
13th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid, icSmartGrid 2025 13th International Conference on Smart Grid, pp. 125-130 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1109/icsmartgrid66138.2025.11071790
Assessing the capability and limitations of small signal simplified grid following models for the identification of sub-synchronous oscillations
Coffey Sophie, Harrison Sam, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Xu Lie
IEEE Access Vol 13, pp. 116025-116036 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3586197
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
A modal contribution metric for quantifying small-signal variability in power systems with converter-interfaced generation
Benedetti Luke, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Vol 40, pp. 2636-2647 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2024.3500786

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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

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Projects

SETTLE - INSIGHT (NIA)
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2028
DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Nordena, Noreta
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Nordena, Noreta (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2028
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

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Professor Agusti Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373