Grid-Forming Converters in Modern Power Systems
Modeling, control and integrationGhazala Shafique
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2027
Grid-forming converters are advanced power electronic devices which support voltage and frequency control in electrical grids. They offer several substantial benefits: improving resilience by counteracting voltage and frequency inconsistencies during faults and disturbances, enabling better integration of renewables and storage devices by stabilising systems with large numbers of inverter-based resources, and restarting grids after blackouts without depending on conventional non-renewable energy sources. Thanks to these properties, transmission system operators are pushing for their integration into power system all over the world. Understanding how to model, control and integrate grid-forming converters is therefore an increasingly important requirement for operators and engineers in the power electronics and power systems fields.