“…By contrast with the previous location selection method of HVDC systems, the proposed method mainly focusses on the impact of the locations on system stability. In [5,6], the best locations of HVDC links in 39-bus systems are identified as {bus3, bus22, bus35} and {bus8, bus20, bus27}, respectively. To compare the system dynamic responses with different HVDC locations, three cases are set: (1) Case A: the locations selected by this paper {bus1, bus9, bus39}; (2) Case B: the locations found by [5], i.e., {bus3, bus22, bus35}; (3) Case C: the locations found by [6], i.e., {bus8, bus20, bus27}.…”