Network stability

Interview with Oriol Gomis-Bell

Power electronics have become a central element of the modern electrical system. Converters, digital control, and new network architectures are redefining how the network is designed, operated, and stabilised in a context of increasing renewable deployment.

How does this change affect the stability of the system? What role do strategies such as grid-forming, energy storage, or technologies such as HVDC play?

In this interview, Xalo Rancaño, Power Electronics Engineer at Norvento TECHnPower, talks to Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt, professor and researcher at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), about the main challenges and opportunities that power electronics brings to today’s electricity grid.

Throughout the conversation, they analyze how converters and their digital control have become technical pillars for ensuring the stability and flexibility of the electrical system of the future.