The present invention relates to Voltage balancing control method for modular multilevel converter is characterized that, it includes some steps as follows:
1) Determine the leg current direction is positive or negative;
2) Find out the highest sub module on output state whose capacitor voltage amplitude is the maximum, and find out that on bypass state whose capacitor voltage amplitude is the minimum;
3) Determine whether the sub module inputs or bypass operation; this method avoided switching arbitrariness of the sub module, and decreased the switching frequency of the sub module. The capacitor voltage balancing control of the sub module proposed by the method is more suitable to be applied in the field of high voltage and large capacity converter that has large numbers of sub modules.