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Grid Forming: A Solution to (Some of) Our Grid Stability Challenges

April 25, 2025

Successful basketball teams include players with a variety of talents—three-point shooting, rebounding, defending, passing. However, assembling a team where every player excels in all these areas is impractical (and likely prohibitively expensive and difficult to coach). Instead, prudent coaches identify specific skills gaps and recruit players to fill the gaps. In the energy world, a stable and reliable grid is like a winning basketball team with players filling in all relevant gaps. Grid-forming (GFM) inverter-based resource (IBR) technology is like a very solid player … sort of a star NBA player. While certain grids and projects require GFM technology to operate stably, many others can operate stably with non-GFM technology. Identifying…

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