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Dual Grid-Forming MMC With Embedded Storage for Damping Provision

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Arkaitz Rabanal *
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S. D'Arco
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Elisabetta Tedeschi
DOI:10.1109/TPWRD.2025.3648187delete
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This paper explores the use of the recently proposed dual grid-forming control applied to modular multilevel converters and enhanced by embedded energy storage. Dual grid-forming technique enables the converter to form both ac and dc grids by leveraging its internal energy, while the embedded energy storage provides damping to the grid, thereby improving its stability margins. The application of dual grid-forming in a modular multilevel converter is characterized by using its internal power balance as a synchronization mechanism. The addition of controllable and decoupled energy storage provides a new and promising degree of freedom. On this basis, two innovative damping provision methods are proposed and compared with the existing solutions by means of small-signal eigenvalue analysis and time-domain numerical simulations. Results show enhanced system stability margins, with an increased damping ratio of the critical eigenvalue from 10% to 60%, and a lower perturbation of system variables when using the proposed strategies.
Keywords:
Grid forming
Damping
Synchronization
Power system stability
Energy storage
Voltage control
Control systems
HVDC transmission
Frequency control
Picture archiving and communication systems
Grid-forming control
modular multilevel converter (MMC)
energy storage
HVDC transmission systems
power system stability

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IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery cover
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
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norwegian university of science & technology (ntnu)
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