Perspectives of SiC Power Devices in Highly Efficient Renewable Energy Conversion Systems

Peter Zacharias

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.615-617.889

Paper Titles

Solar-Blind 4H-SiC Avalanche Photodiodes
p.873

Influence of Defects in 4H-SiC Avalanche Photodiodes on Geiger-Mode Dark Count Probability
p.877

High Temperature Characteristics for UV Responsivity of 3C-SiC pn Photodiode
p.881

Silicon Carbide UV Based Photovoltaic for Hostile Environments
p.885

Perspectives of SiC Power Devices in Highly Efficient Renewable Energy Conversion Systems
p.889

Applications of SiC-Transistors in Photovoltaic Inverters
p.895

100 Amp, 1000 Volt Class 4H-Silicon Carbide MOSFET Modules
p.899

Substantial Reduction of Power Loss in a 14kVA Inverter Using Paralleled SiC-MOSFETs and SiC-SBDs
p.903

Comparison of SiC-JFET and Si-IGBT Inverter Losses
p.907

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Perspectives of SiC Power Devices in Highly Efficient Renewable Energy Conversion Systems

Abstract:

In the long run, regenerative energy sources represent the most important alternatives to fossil fuels. In general, they are characterized by decentralized logistics and supply capabilities due to ihnerent lower energetic densitiy per are, when compared with the fossil counterparts. As a result, the increased use of regenerative energy sources will require decentralized structures for energy supply, consumption optimisation and regional balancing between supply and demand. Both, the more efficient utilization of fossil energy sources and the utilization of regenerative energy sources, lead to increasingly decentralized supply structures and can be understood as being both complementary and convergent in relation to each other. Most of the converter units for utilization of decentralized energy resources (DER) use power electronics for the AC power conditioning with grid quality. The current paper shows market perspectives of DER applications and the impact of SiC on these application.