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