Moustafa Shahin

About

Moustafa Shahin is a smart grid and utility industry expert with 20+ years of experience in T&D project management, power system studies, smart grid, AMI, DERMS, SCADA-ADMS and renewable resources integration. He is the head of DER integration working group managing distribution grid development at Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA). He has successfully accomplished large-scale smart grid projects in more than 3500 distribution substations over the past seven years.

Shahin is a two-time winner of Dubai innovation award and UK ideas award and has co-authored several Elsevier, IEEE and Cigre technical papers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, MBA in engineering management and currently a PhD researcher at Heriot-Watt University focuses on optimal renewable distributed resources integration into smart distribution grids.

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Education

• Heriot-Watt University School of Energy Geoscience Infrastructure and Society PhD Energy
  2016 - 2022

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Publications (6)

• Design and field implementation of smart grid-integrated control of PV inverters for autonomous voltage regulation and VAR ancillary services
  Electric Power Systems Research 2022 19 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2022.107862
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• EVALUATION OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE INTERCONNECTION CODES AND GRID ANCILLARY SERVICES OF PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS: A CASE STUDY ON DUBAI SOLAR PROGRAMME
  International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 2020 3 citations DOI: 10.32479/ijeep.8758
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• Harmonic analysis of high penetration level of Photovoltaic generation in distribution network and solution studies
  2019 8th International Conference on Modeling Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO) 2019 9 citations DOI: 10.1109/icmsao.2019.8880387
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• Investigating Smart Grid Approaches for optimal integration of PV Distributed Energy Resources in Dubai
  Proceedings of SWC2017/SHC2017 2017 1 citation DOI: 10.18086/swc.2017.01.02
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• Innovative Remote Monitoring and fire safeguard System for Secondary Distribution Substations using web based SCADA
  CIGRE International Conference on Condition Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance 2015
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• Smart Grid self-healing implementation for underground distribution networks
  2013 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-Asia (ISGT Asia) 2013 12 citations DOI: 10.1109/isgt-asia.2013.6698702
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