The penetration of power electronic interfaced generation (PEIG) is expected to reach up to 65% in some parts of the European power system by 2030 (at least during some hours of the year). Under such grid conditions, system security challenges are observed with frequency stability, voltage stability and undamped converter control interactions being among the most important issues. This study presents a short-term voltage stability assessment of the Great Britain synchronous area under EMT modelling assumptions. The study provides a mapping of system stability and identifies the critical penetration level of PEIG that instabilities are observed. In addition, an application of a grid forming control scheme (namely the enhanced direct power control) is proposed as a mitigation option which is applied here on full-converter interfaced wind power plants (type-4). The simulation results reveal that the application of the grid forming control to a part of the total wind power generation fleet can mitigate the instabilities observed, while enabling the system operation with 100% PEIG.

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