ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the generation of AC power from renewable sources which in our case happens to be a solar photovoltaic cell or solar PV cell. The power from the solar PV panel is fed into a Cuk DC-DC converter whose function is to boost the solar output to a certain level as well as hold the voltage steady at that level so that the next stage, that is the inverter stage, can have a fixed input. In this chapter, we have discussed the AC generation using a multi-level inverter (MLI) with novel topology whose gate pulses are controlled by a method called the asymmetric phase opposition disposition pulse width modulation (APOD-PWM). Our work in this chapter also focuses on the hard and soft switching problems in a converter. It is taken care that the circuit which we have tried to implement in this work are soft switching in nature and thus the stress on the switches is greatly reduced. Moreover, the project does not involve any transformers for the step-up and step-down purposes and thus the leakage occurring due to them are also reduced. The whole circuit is simulated in MATLAB 2017a and the results are given henceforth.
