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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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 | 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
Contact
Professor
Agusti
Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373