Research Status and Development

Significant developments on highly performance, highly reliable and highly efficient power electrical inverters are underway for renewable energy and other industrial occasions. This chapter introduces the background of renewable energy and traditional source inverters which are widely applied in solar PV and wind power. Then current research status and advanced technologies related to impedance source inverters are presented, including the concepts, classification, and future trends as well as the advantages compared with traditional source inverters.

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