Design and development of a 500kW utility-interactive switch-clamped three-level photovoltaic inverter

8th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia: "Green World with Power Electronics", ICPE 2011-ECCE Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1627-1631

  Inzunza, R ^a   Yamaguchi, H ^a   Ikawa, E ^a   Sumiya, T ^a   Fujii, Y ^a   Satoh, A ^a  

^a TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active NPC; Grid connected inverter; Multilevel converters; Switch clamped three level inverter; Utility scaled photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NPC; GRID CONNECTED INVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; UTILITY-SCALED PHOTOVOLTAIC;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; USER INTERFACES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 80052085969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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