Modeling, Stability Mechanism and Control in Grid-Forming (GFM) Power Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2026 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stability and control of power electronics dominated power systems with high proportion of renewable energy; modeling and control of grid-forming converter systems; stability and control on virtual synchronous generator; virtual inertia control
Interests: stability and control of renewable energy power systems; virtual synchronous machine; modeling and control of grid-forming converter systems; virtual inertia
Interests: distributionally robust optimization; integrated energy system applications; power system dispatch; two stage robust optimization; stochastic programming
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the rapid growth of power electronics devices is penetrated into renewable energy power systems, the inertia and damping level is ever-increasingly declined, which causes the low-frequency oscillation phenomena in power electronics dominated power systems. To overcome these issues, grid-forming (GFM) control, especially the virtual synchronous generator, provides inertia and damping support to the low-inertia power grid, which can increase the security and stability of the power electronics-dominated power systems. Nevertheless, challenges remain in terms of the grid-friendly integration of GFM converter as well as the coordination between GFM converter and the power grids.
This Special Issue focuses on the modeling and stability mechanism of GFM converter integrated into power grid with virtual synchronous machines and aims to explore the latest advances and innovations in GFM technologies and modeling methods for stability mechanisms. Topics such as modeling, stability analysis, and emerging control techniques on the GFM converter are of particular interest. We welcome original research and review articles that contribute to our understanding and development of modeling methods and control techniques of GFM power systems. Researchers, engineers and practitioners from both academic and industry are encouraged to share the insights regarding the advancements in GFM power systems.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Emerging control techniques on power quality improvement of grid-forming power systems;
- Monitoring of power quality and modeling as well as mechanism analysis of harmonic stability;
- Digital twins techniques on harmonics stability model and online estimation of power quality;
- Model and mechanism analysis on electromechanical and electromagnetic transients stability of grid-forming power systems;
- Emerging modeling approaches on harmonics stability mechanism analysis of grid-forming converter systems;
- Offline model methods on stability mechanism of grid-forming power systems;
- Online stability estimation of grid-forming converter systems based on data-driven methods;
- Artificial neural networks-based optimization of agricultural park microgrids;
- Demand-side response of agricultural park microgrids with GFM control;
- Online inertia estimation approach of GFM power systems;
- Multi-timescales modeling on multi-Microgrids with virtual synchronous machines;
- Modeling on interaction between electric vehicle and power grid with virtual synchronous machines techniques.
Dr. Chang Li
Dr. Yaqian Yang
Dr. Min Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- grid-forming control
- virtual synchronous machines
- modelling and stability
- GFM power systems
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