MrFater Akuhwa

Fater Akuhwa is a PhD student in the Control and Power group, department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His PhD research under the supervision of Professor Timothy Charles Green and Professor Mark O'Malley focuses on proposing trade-offs in grid and IBR co-design for the provision of system services in the 100% renewable electricity grid. System services were previously provided by synchronous generators and tied to their inherent characteristics. A choice therefore exists between modification of inverters to provide those services or enhancement of the grid in some way as to use less or different services. Rather than this being a strict choice between two options, it should be viewed as striking a compromise somewhere between these options to find the least cost solution. The current phase of his research explores how mechanisms to ensure less angle deviation between resources and well-chosen "mho" regions in protection relays can achieve high levels of selectivity without needing to increase current fault levels through additional hardware.

In November 2023 he was part of a delegation from Imperial College London that participated in the Global Fellows Program held in Kigali Rwanda, in partnership with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), an opportunity provided to PhD researchers to further develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in an interdisciplinary context. From May - August 2024, he visited the University of Toronto as a recipient of Imperial's Turing Award to conduct research related to protection of power systems with a high penetration of inverter-based resources. Fater serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in various modules including Mathematics for Engineers, Topics in Electrical Engineering, and Power Systems and Power Electronics.