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Volume 23 • Number 2 • March/April 2025
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20 Best Practice 59 Macrogrids and Supergrids
By Dechao Kong, Antony Johnson, By Dennis Woodford
and Xiaoyao Zhou
68 E ssential System Services Provided
30 A
nalytical Modeling of High-Power by HVdc Systems
Converters By Junsoo Kim, Youngjin Kim, Gilsoo Jang,
By Dragan Jovcic and Lingling Fan Junho Hong, Myunghwan Choi, and Chulhyu Lee
46 World’s First UHV Hybrid 81 A
Flexible Low-Frequency
LCC–VSC MTDC Project AC Transmission System
By Shukai Xu, Hong Rao, Yuebin Zhou, By Yunlong Dong, Changjiang Zhan, Junhua Hu,
Wanyu Cao, Yan Xiong, Changyue Zou, Peng Qiu, Yizhe Lin, Defeng Qiu, Hua Xu,
Wei Wei, Yu Yang, and Tao Liu Lei Pan, and Jie Tian
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