International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Distributed energy resources systems are small scale power generation tools used to provide substitute solution or additional enhancement of traditional electric power system. This paper is mainly concentrated on Single phase multilevel inverter for Distributed Energy Resources. The objective of this paper is to reduce switches with increase in multilevel outputs which inherently reduces the cost and harmonics. Seven level inverter with six switches and thirteen level inverter with 8 switches are carried out using MATLAB 7.10 version (Simulink). Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is analysed for two types of multilevel inverter in MATLAB. For implementing hardware, the circuit is tested in PROTEUS 7.4 version software which helps in troubleshooting real time problem.