Grid-Forming Converters- Principles and Practices (2025)

Welcome to Grid-Forming Converters: Principles and Practices (2025)

Description: Converter-based systems dominate modern grids due to increasing renewables, where grid-forming controlled converters play a key role in maintaining power system stability. This course addresses crucial grid-forming converter principles, including grid codes, control design, stability, resonance damping, and fault management for power professionals and researchers.

Key words: Grid-forming converters, grid codes, control, modeling, stability, fault

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in ac circuits, power electronic converters and control theories.

Learning objectives: Concepts of grid-forming converters, grid code requirements for grid-forming, detailed control structures, simple control implementation in simulations and stability analysis

Teaching methods: Lectures

Form of evaluation: Mini report

Criteria for assessment: A report that solves the exercise

Remarks: 16 hours for teaching, 2 hours for practicing on the courses, 10 hours for reviewing the lectures, 36 hours for investigating the exercise, and 20 hours for finalizing the report.

Organizer: Professor Xiongfei Wang, xwa@energy.aau.dk.

Lecturers: 

• Professor Xiongfei Wang, Aalborg University.
• Assistent Professor Heng Wu, Aalborg University
• Assistent Professor Fangzhou Zhao, Aalborg University
• Dr. Pedro Rodriguez, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

ECTS: 3.0

Time: 17, 18, 19 februar 2025

Place: Aalborg University, AAU Energy. 

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Maximal number of participants: 50

Deadline: 27 January 2025

Course fee: PhD Students (outside Denmark): 6000 DKK and other participants (from Industry and Universities): 8000 DKK (excluding VAT)
Guests at AAU Energy can also attend the course for free.

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.