As power systems evolve toward converter‑dominated operation, understanding HVDC control, stability, and grid‑forming behavior becomes essential. This 5‑day course offers a comprehensive introduction to HVDC control principles; from the fundamentals of converter control to advanced stability analysis, multi‑terminal HVDC (MTDC) operation, and grid‑forming implementations. Participants will be guided by experts at Etch and will work hands-on with EMT software and open‑source stability tools used in industry and research. By the end of this course, participants will have a solid understanding of converter controls, system stability, interactions, and the fundamentals of HVDC grid operation.
- When: on demand
- Duration: 5 days
- Course format: online / in-person
What to expect
- HVDC control modes
- MMC modelling basics
- Cascaded MMC control structure
- Grid forming (GFM) control basics and implementations
- GFM design characteristics
- GFM applications
- Largesignal versus smallsignal stability analysis
- State-space and frequency-based small-signal stability
- Passivity concepts and modeling approaches (white/grey/blackbox)
- Control of monopolar, bipolar and MTDC systems
- Control interactions
- Introduction to opensource HVDC stability tools (e.g., Ztool, PowerImpedanceACDC.jl)
Target audience
This course is aimed at engineers, technical experts, researchers and PhD students active in HVDC who seek deeper knowledge of converter control and system stability.
