This paper presents a new three-phase four-leg voltage source inverter (VSI), which achieves a high cost effectiveness for mega-watt level system applications. The proposed four-leg inverter adopts the integrated topology with thyristors and insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), which aims to reduce the number of IGBTs. In order to handle the zero sequence current, a neutral leg via incorporating IGBTs is artfully integrated with the regular phase legs. Furthermore, the modelling principles are elaborated and analyzed, which emphasizes switching states and voltage vectors in six segments based on the states of thyristors. Finally, by using the carrier-based pulse width modulation (PWM) method, the closed-loop current control of the proposed inverter is verified by both simulation and experimentation. a three-phase four-leg inverter is reported in [29], where the lower order nontriplen harmonics are eliminated by using Fourier-based equations on line-to-line basis as conventional SHE technology to express the control signals of three legs. In addition, two methods that mitigate the load neutral point voltage (LNPV) for three-phase four-leg inverters are analyzed, which are based on the PWM strategy and the common mode filter, respectively [30]. Moreover, a decoupled sequence control strategy, employing positive sequence, negative sequence, and zero sequence controllers is studied in [31].However, the available publications on three-phase four-leg inverters are limited to eightinsulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) topologies, as illustrated in Figure 1a. In mega-watt level applications, the IGBT with a rated current of thousands of ampere is not cost-effective and is not suitable for some cost-sensitive situations.