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Additionally, STs enable the deployment of hybrid AC\/DC networks, which offer important advantages in this context. In addition to offering further degrees of controllability, hybrid AC\/DC networks are more suited to integrate DC resources such as DC loads, PV generation, ESS and EV chargers. The purpose of the work developed in this paper is to address the feasibility of exploiting STs to actively coordinate a fleet of resources existing in a hybrid AC\/DC network supplied by the ST aiming to provide active power-frequency regulation services to the upstream AC grid. The feasibility of the ST to coordinate the resources available in the hybrid distribution AC\/DC network in order to provide active power-frequency regulation services is demonstrated in this paper through computational simulation. 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