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<p>One of the preferred choices of electronic power conversion for high power applications are multilevel inverters topologies finding increased attention in industry. Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter is one of these topologies reaching the higher output voltage, power level and higher reliability due to its modular topology. Level Shifted Carrier Pulse Width Modulation (LSCPWM) and Phase Shifted Carrier Pulse Width Modulation are used generally for switching cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel inverters. This paper compares LSCPWM and PSCPWM in terms of total harmonics distortion (THD) and output voltage among inverter cells. Simulation for 21-level CHB inverter is carried out in MATLAB/SIMULINK and simulation results are presented.</p>

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Standalone solar PV systems have emerged as potential alternatives to electricity problems in areas where a grid is unavailable. Obtaining full power from a photoelectric system, DC-DC inverter, DC-AC converter, and control system presents great difficulties when building these devices. A standalone twostage approach is introduced in this work with a boost converter followed by an inverter and a battery with a bidirectional converter. In this paper, a novel virtual synchronous generator (VSG) controller is designed and implemented to adjust the inverter output. The VSG element and the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) used in this study serve the following purposes: to adjust the inverter output and to realize the maximum power of the PV scheme. The new control strategy design was evaluated and validated using extensive MATLAB simulations under different scenarios, including load variations. The system output was evaluated using extensive MATLAB simulations. A hands-on experiment was conducted for the VSG using console testing. Due to the lack of laboratory equipment, we could not experiment with the entire system.INDEX TERMS MPPT, DC-DC boost converter, PV array, virtual synchronous generator, two-stage converter, DC-AC inverter, battery.