Due to the great uncertainty of the output power of renewable energy sources (RESs), the storage and reuse of RESs is the focus of new energy technology. The bidirectional DC-DC resonant converter is preferred in the new energy technology. However, the efficiency of traditional bidirectional DC-DC resonant converter will be greatly affected by the wide voltage gain range. By applying the adaptive excitation inductance, a CLLCLC resonant converter is proposed. The L-C branch is introduced to replace the fixed excitation inductance in traditional CLLLC resonant converter. In the design of transformer, the turns ratio and excitation inductance of transformer are decoupled to reduce the difficulty of transformer design. Simultaneously, compared with the traditional transformer, the impedance of equivalent excitation inductance will adjust automatically against the working frequency, decreasing the circulating current loss of resonant tank. Therefore, the proposed converter solves the contradiction between wide voltage gain range and high efficiency existed in the traditional converter. Finally, an experimental platform with 200 W rated power is built to verify the effectiveness of proposed topology.INDEX TERMS bidirectional DC-DC resonant converter, Renewable energy sources (RESs), zero voltage switching (ZVS).