Biography:

ANDREAS STAVROU BIO

Andreas Stavrou received his BSc in electrical engineering and MSc in power stations from Leningrad State Technical University, in 1988 and 1990 respectively and his PhD degree on Condition Monitoring of Electrical Machines from Aberdeen University, Scotland in 1995. He joined the Electricity Authority of Cyprus in 1996, where now holds the position of Assistant Manager in the Transmission Substations, Construction, Protection and Maintenance department of the Transmission Network Owner’s Unit. In the last 25 years in his capacity as site engineer and project manager he handled a few tens of new transmission substation erection, testing and commissioning projects, upgrades, and extensions. Also, he was involved in Renewable Energy Sources testing and commissioning, schedule and non-scheduled maintenance and repairs of Transmission Substations equipment, condition assessment for aged equipment and corrective maintenance activities, protection and SCADA systems testing.

In the Transmission Network Owner’s Unit he is now involved in New technology applications, Specifications, Preparation and monitoring of Unit short and long-term business plans, Project management, procurement, tenders, Transmission Grid Testing, maintenance and protection policies. He is representing the unit externally in the relevant Transmission System Operator’s and Regulators committees. He is Transmission Network Owner’s Unit representative in Transmission System Operator’s Advisory Committee for Transmission Rules.

Dr Stavrou is also a special scientist in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Cyprus from 2007 to today, teaching the courses of Power Electronics and Flexible AC Transmission Systems and, also, in the years 2019 and 2020 he taught the course of Introduction to Power Systems.

Dr Stavrou participates in Research Programs in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, University of Southampton and Cyprus University of Technology on Fault diagnosis of Medium Voltage Cables and Power quality assessments, use PMUs in the assessment of transmission line parameters and also in a series of externally funded projects like: TwinEU, FLEXITRANSTORE, MOST, EDDIE, LightSense), BestRes, SEM- SEM, INVENT. He was a Member of the CIGRE Study Committee “The Impact of Battery Energy Storage Systems on Distribution Networks”, WG No C6.30.

Dr Stavrou is an IEEE Power Engineering Society Reviewer since 2000. His research interests lie in Smart Grids, Power electronics, Custom Power Devices, renewable energy sources, energy storage, distributed generation control techniques and Condition monitoring techniques.