There is described a method of controlling a wind power plant, the wind power plant comprising a plurality of wind turbines (102) and being connected to a power grid (120), the method comprising (a) detecting a grid frequency instability, (b) selecting a subset of wind turbines, (c) modifying a power reference for each wind turbine in the selected subset of wind turbines to respond to the grid frequency instability, and (d) applying the modified power references to the corresponding wind turbines in the selected subset of wind turbines. There further described a wind power plant controller, a wind power plant, a computer program, and a computer program product.