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