arXiv · 2506.22054
Complex Phase Analysis of Power Grid Dynamics
Abstract
With an increasing share of renewable energy sources, accurate and efficient modeling of grid-forming inverters is becoming crucial for system stability. Linear methods are a powerful tool for understanding dynamics close to an operating point, but usually depend on the reference trajectory. Thus, small deviations can render linear models invalid over time, posing a significant challenge in practice, and complicating theoretical analysis. As a solution, we show that the complex phase offers a robust formulation independent of reference phases and frequencies, thus preserving invariance properties under linearization. This enables robust system identification during realistic conditions and opens the road to powerful stability analysis of inverter-based grids.
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Jakob Niehues, Anna Büttner, Anne Riegler, Frank Hellmann. 2025-06-27. Complex Phase Analysis of Power Grid Dynamics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22054
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