This paper presents a single phase five level photovoltaic (PV) inverter topology for grid connected PV systems with a novel Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) control scheme. Two reference signals identical to each other with an offset equivalent to the amplitude of the triangular carrier signal were used to generate PWM signals for the switches. A digital Proportional-Integral derivative (PID) curre...

This paper presents a single-phase multistring Multi-level photovoltaic (PV) inverter topology for gridconnected PV systems with a novel hybrid Hbridge inverter. The proposed novel cascaded Hybrid H-bridge produces higher voltage levels with less number of devices. This will reduce the number of gate drivers and protection circuits requirement, this inurn reduces the cost increase the reliabili...

The paper presents a closed loop current control technique of three phase grid connected systems with a renewable energy source. The proposal optimizes the system design, permitting reduction of system losses and harmonics for the three phase grid connected system. The performance of the proposed controller of grid connected PV array with DC-DC converter and multilevel inverter is evaluated thr...

This paper yields a simulation model of the electrical part of a grid connected photovoltaic system. The model contains a detailed representation of the main components of the system that are the solar array, boost converter, mppt controller, inverter control circuit and utility grid. A proper control of the DC/AC inverter is developed in order to synchronize the system to the grid. The grid in...

Grid connected inverters play a crucial role in generating energy to be fed to the grid. A filter is commonly used to suppress the switching frequency harmonics produced by the inverter, this being passive, and either an L- or LCL-filter. The latter is smaller in size compared to the L-filter. But choosing the optimal values of the LCL-filter is challenging due to resonance, which can affect st...

To eliminate the common-mode leakage current in the transformerless photovoltaic system, an improved high efficiency inverter H6 type configuration with Z-source is presented. The Z-source network can perform boost as well as sustained shoot through operation. Also, the improved transformer less inverter can sustain the same low input voltage as the full-bridge inverter and guarantee to complet...

Control of PV-grid connected inverter introduces a delay between sinusoidal current reference and measured current at the output of the inverter. This leads to a phase difference between the current injected by the inverter and grid voltage when using a simple PI controller. To overcome this problem, PI controllers used to control injected currents to the grid have been substituted, in this stu...

This paper describes the investigation of the grid-connected three-phase inverter for photovoltaic (PV) application. The inverter control system modeling is carried out in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. With the aids of the proportional-integral controllers, sinusoidal pulse-width modulation (SPWM) control technique and Park transformation, the inverter control system managed to convert PV power ...