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About the session
Colin Davidson, Consulting Engineer GE Renewable Energy Editorial Presentation
Grid forming converters are already available and used in HVDC schemes designed to import power from offshore wind farms. However, with the rapid growth in converter-fed generation (mainly from wind and solar) and the consequent reduction of traditional rotating machines, grids face increasing stability risks. Existing designs of grid-forming converters cannot be used in conjunction with other grid-forming converters or synchronous machines and therefore cannot be used for the onshore AC grids. There is therefore a pressing need to develop enhanced grid-forming converters with additional functionality, which will enable new HVDC converters to provide a fault response that is more similar to that provided by synchronous machines, while still respecting the need to keep transient currents within the limits of the IGBT capability.
Session Chair - Mike Barnes
