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17 November 2025

Enhanced Damping Method for Suppressing Sub-Synchronous Oscillations of Grid-Forming Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator

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Powerchina Huadong Engineering Co., Ltd., Hangzhou 311122, China
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School of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Electronics2025, 14(22), 4489;https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14224489 
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Abstract

With the increase in wind power penetration, the stable operation of wind turbines under the new power system is facing severe challenges. The grid-forming wind power technology operates in a self-synchronous mode, which can provide voltage and frequency support for the system without being affected by the phase-locked loop, and is also suitable for operation under weak power grids. However, the current research for the grid-forming (GFM) permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) ignores the DC-link dynamics generated by the wind turbine, which makes the sub-synchronous oscillation (SSO) phenomenon under different grid conditions and lacks a physical explanation. In this paper, the SSO problem in the grid-forming PMSG is studied, and the study reveals that the reduction in the DC-link voltage control bandwidth of the machine-side converter (MSC) is the main cause. To this end, an improved damping method is proposed, which introduces a low-pass filter branch in the reactive power control loop and takes the DC-link voltage tracking error as a compensation term. The small-signal analysis and simulation results show that the proposed method has significant effectiveness.

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