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
- Enabling power system restoration from offshore wind power plants in the UK
- Alves Rui, Yang Ning, Xu Lie, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí
- Energies Vol 18 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/en18020436
- Stability assessment and improvement of MTDC system connected with offshore wind farms
- Chen Yin, Xu Lie, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Hodge Eoin, Sajedi Shahab, McCullough Keith, McKeever Paul, Smailes Michael
- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Vol 39, pp. 3347-3360 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrd.2024.3466314
- Improving energy efficiency for suburban railways : a two-stage scheduling optimization in a rail-EV smart hub
- Chen Yinyu, Chen Minwu, Lu Wenjie, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Xu Lie
- eTransportation Vol 22 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etran.2024.100366
- 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, pp. 1-12 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2024.3500786
- Review of multiport power converters for distribution network applications
- Harrison Sam, Soltoswski Bartosz, Pepiciello Antonio, Henao Andres Camilo, Farag Ahmed Y, Beza Mebtu, Xu Lie, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Cheah-Mañé Marc, Gomis-Bellmunt Oriol
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol 203 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114742
- Control and power balancing of an off-grid wind turbine with co-located electrolyzer
- Timmers Victor, Egea Alvarez Agusti, Gkountaras Aris, Xu Lie
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy Vol 15, pp. 2349-2360 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2024.3418043
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
- 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
- SIF-INSIGHT Alpha
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- BLADE - Alpha phase
- Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Khaled (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- Linked to project RKES 221702
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Agusti
Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373