2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Montreal, QC, Canada, 20 - 24 Eylül 2015, ss.3740-3747
This paper presents the design of a multimode photovoltaic inverter with energy storage capability. The topology is based on three-cell interleaved flyback converter rated at 2.5 kW and configured to operate in four modes. The current research on photovoltaic inverter technology promotes the simple and the low-cost advantages of the flyback topology only at very low power as microinverter. The objective of this study, however, is to demonstrate the practicality of the interleaved flyback topology at high power with high efficiency and its implementation as a multimode inverter for residential PV applications with low-cost advantage.