Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

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Transient Stability Enhancement of Grid-forming Inverter-based Resources by Optimizing Angle of Saturated Current
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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

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the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Grant 956433 (InnoCyPES Project), and in part by the Resilient Operation of Sustainable Energy Systems (ROSES) U.K.-China (EPSRC-NSFC) Programme on Sustainable Energy Supply EP/T021713/1 NSFC-52061635102This work was supported in part by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Grant 956433 (InnoCyPES Project), and in part by the Resilient Operation of Sustainable Energy Systems (ROSES) U.K.-China (EPSRC-NSFC) Programme on Sustainable Energy Supply under Grants EP/T021713/1 and NSFC-52061635102.

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    The current saturation challenges the transient stability of grid-forming (GFM) inverter-based resources (IBRs) during large disturbances by introducing the current-saturated stable equilibrium point (CS-SEP). Convergence into the post-fault CS-SEP is an undesired post-disturbance scenario. The angle of the saturated current significantly affects the post-disturbance trajectory. Moreover, the voltage immediately after the converter returns to the normal operation mode depends on this angle. If the difference between this voltage and the reference voltage is large, huge power oscillations occur superimposed on the second-order power swing. The voltage-error-induced power oscillation appears as a disturbance on the active power control loop and affects transient stability. In this paper, the angle of the saturated current is adjusted to minimize the voltage error immediately after the GFM IBR returns to the normal operation mode and prevent the convergence into CS-SEP. To do so, a closed-form expression for the angle of the saturated current at which the voltage transient is minimized is derived in the first stage. Then, an optimization is formulated to minimize the deviation of the angle of the saturated current from the angle calculated in the first stage while ensuring that CS-SEP convergence is avoided. This optimal control method, which enhances transient stability by adaptively tuning the angle of the saturated current, is validated through simulation.

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. Transient Stability Enhancement of Grid-forming Inverter-based Resources by Optimizing Angle of Saturated Current[J]. Journal of Modern Power Systems testClean Energy,2026,14(5):1647-1658

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  • Received:December 04,2024
  • Revised:March 07,2025
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  • Online: September 28,2026
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