Who Should Attend

The course is designed primarily for for engineers and researchers working in the field of renewable energy, HVDC transmission, as well as grid planning and operation. The targeted audience includes:

  • Hardware, software and system engineers involved in the design, characterization, testing and grid integration of converter-interfaced resources, including wind turbines, PV inverters, HVDC converters and energy storage
  • Power system engineers responsible for grid design and planning, interconnection studies, as well as performance specification and grid code development for different resources
  • Hardware and software engineers involved in the development of test equipment and software tools for converter-interfaced resources and future power systems
  • Researchers and PhD students working on the topics listed above or wishing to learn the methods and contribute to their future development.

Participants of the course are assumed to understand the fundamentals of power electronics, power systems and general stability theory; working knowledge and practical experience with renewable energy, HVDC transmission and power system analysis is desirable. For attendees without in-depth knowledge of power electronics, the first lecture of Part I reviews the circuits and control of converters for power system applications. Additional background knowledge of stability theory is also reviewed in relevant lectures. By participating in the course, attendees will develop:

  • In-depth understanding of small-signal sequence immittance theory and its application to grid-connected converters and converter-interfaced resources
  • Abilities to model the immittance of different converter-interfaced resources, including practical methods to obtain immittance responses by frequency scan and measurement
  • Abilities to formulate immittance-based system models and perform stability studies of wind, solar, and HVDC systems as well as ac, dc and hybrid ac-dc grids with converters
  • Insights into how the control of PV inverters, wind turbines, and HVDC converters affects their immittance responses and system stability
  • Knowledge of typical behaviors and root causes of instability problems in different systems based on theoretical and real-world case studies
  • Abilities to solve practical instability problems in renewable energy and HDVC systems through converter control or system design