TY - GEN
T1 - A grid connected PV micro-inverter with optimized battery storage utilization
AU - Chowdhury, Vikram Roy
AU - Chaaban, Mohamed Amer
AU - Essakiappan, Somasundaram
AU - Manjrekar, Madhav
AU - Xue, Yaosuo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/27
Y1 - 2015/10/27
N2 - Photovoltaic (PV) installations on the residential scale have been increasing tremendously and projected to continue to do so. Battery energy storage at the residential level has also become critical due to the increased adoption of residential scale PV. This paper proposes a new micro-inverter topology with integrated energy storage for PV applications. The proposed topology has a structure similar to that of a flying capacitor multilevel inverter, with reduced switch count. This provides advantages such as design simplicity while being more cost effective than existing topologies. A unique control scheme is also proposed in this paper, which mitigates PV intermittencies while also optimizing battery utilization. The proposed topology and control technique are verified by simulation for a residential scale micro-inverter rated 230 W. The simulation results validate the micro-inverter operation and the control methodology.
AB - Photovoltaic (PV) installations on the residential scale have been increasing tremendously and projected to continue to do so. Battery energy storage at the residential level has also become critical due to the increased adoption of residential scale PV. This paper proposes a new micro-inverter topology with integrated energy storage for PV applications. The proposed topology has a structure similar to that of a flying capacitor multilevel inverter, with reduced switch count. This provides advantages such as design simplicity while being more cost effective than existing topologies. A unique control scheme is also proposed in this paper, which mitigates PV intermittencies while also optimizing battery utilization. The proposed topology and control technique are verified by simulation for a residential scale micro-inverter rated 230 W. The simulation results validate the micro-inverter operation and the control methodology.
KW - Micro-inverter
KW - battery energy storage
KW - multilevel
KW - photovoltaics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84963532623&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2015.7310148
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2015.7310148
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963532623
T3 - 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
SP - 3455
EP - 3461
BT - 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
Y2 - 20 September 2015 through 24 September 2015
ER -
