As one of the most representative series active compensators, dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) can solve voltage-related power quality uses effectively. The in-phase voltage control and energy-optimised control are the two typical control strategies of DVR. However, the in-phase voltage control results in a large amount of active power exchange between the main grid and the dc link of DVR, and hence high capacity of storage system is needed in the dc link while the energy-optimised strategy requires high injected voltage, resulting in oversizing of the DVR inverter. Thus, in order to avoid the aforementioned drawbacks, this study proposes a modified DVR, which connects an external capacitor in series with the LC filter (LCC) of DVR (LCC-DVR). Based on the operational principles of the LCC-DVR, an updated procedure of reference voltage is proposed to avoid overmodulation of DVR caused by load variations, ensuring the continuous operation capability of the LCC-DVR. The overall control scheme of the LCC-DVR and the comparative analysis among the proposed strategy and traditional strategies are also presented. The effectiveness of the proposed topology and method is clearly validated by the simulation and experimental results. 1 INTRODUCTION With the increasing penetration of distributed generation electric vehicle charging stations and rapidly changing loads, the distribution systems experience voltage-related power quality issues [1-4]. To increase voltage stability and power quality, an effective solution is to use a series active compensator [2, 5-7], such as the dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) [8-10]. Various control strategies had been developed to control the DVR [11-14]. The in-phase control strategy restores the load This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.