Single-phase cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter with nonactive power compensation for grid-connected photovoltaic generators

IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition: Energy Conversion Innovation for a Clean Energy Future, ECCE 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2733-2737

  Xiao, Bailu ^a   Filho, Faete ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; CURRENT REFERENCE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GRID-CONNECTED; GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; H-BRIDGES; HYBRID CONTROLLER; LOCAL LOADS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NON-ACTIVE POWER; PROPORTIONAL CONTROLLER; REPETITIVE CONTROLLER; SOLAR PANELS; ZERO-ERROR TRACKING;

CONTROLLERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 81855206588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2011.6064135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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