Development of a Solar-Powered Single-Stage Reconfigurable Inverter for Hybrid Homes

This paper suggested a more suitable converter topology for a solar powered hybrid ac/dc home. The main idea of this topology is to utilize single conversion of ac power to dc and vice versa, which improves the efficiency, reduces volume, and enhances the reliability. The fuzzy logic controller implemented to validates that the suggested converter topologies would be helpful to reduce significant amount of harmonics in the residential feeders of the future smart grid. Though, here only solar PV is considered as source of power, this topology could be equally applicable to wind, fuel cells, etc.

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