Dr. Miroslav Begovic was honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES) with the organization’s top energy award, the 2022 Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award. This award recognizes researchers with outstanding contributions in the field of developing, utilizing and integrating renewable energy resources in the national and global energy scenarios.
Begovic, the Moore Professor and department head in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was presented with this prestigious award for his leadership in the education and development of tools and protection techniques for the integration of renewable generation in electric power systems.
He was the project director for the design and construction of the photovoltaic (PV) system at the Georgia Institute of Technology Aquatic Center built for the 1996 Olympic Games, which was the largest roof-mounted PV system in the world at the time of its commissioning. He was also one of the founding members of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech.
Currently, he is involved in the US-India collAborative for smart diStribution System wIth STorage (UI-ASSIST) program, which is a $7.5 million, five-year project sponsored by the Department of Energy to advance the development of the power grid. The UI-ASSIST program includes U.S. universities such as Washington State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among the participating Indian universities are the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Bhubaneswar.
His work has resulted in about 50 projects for government and industrial sponsors and over 250 publications. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and recipient of the 2019 IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award. He has also previously served as a member and chair of the IEEE PES governing board, as well as president of IEEE PES.