Dear Colleagues,

The electric power generation system is modernizing by moving away from conventional centralized power plants toward distributed generation units, in which grid-connected photovoltaic systems play an important role. This scenario was only made possible due to advances in several areas, including a decrease in cost and increase in the efficiency of photovoltaic cells, evolution of politics aiming at the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, availability of microprocessors with greater computational capacity, development of faster communication protocols, and increase in reliability performance and reduction in lifetime maintenance cost of PV converters. Although power electronics applied to photovoltaic energy processing has reached a maturity stage, it continues to develop, providing solutions to the new challenges that arise as photovoltaic systems are disseminated by the electrical power system. This Special Issue is dedicated to attracting the latest results in high-performance power electronics converter topologies, modulation schemes, and control strategies for photovoltaic applications. Researchers are invited to present cutting-edge ideas to extend the state of the art related to the frontiers of power electronics for photovoltaic applications. Full papers and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Roberto Francisco Coelho
Prof. Dr. Denizar Cruz Martins
Prof. Dr. Lenon Schmitz
Guest Editors

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• Bidirectional converters for integration of energy storage elements in grid-connected photovoltaic systems
• Control techniques for photovoltaic inverters providing ancillary services to the grid
• New generation of central inverters, string inverters, microinverters (or AC modules), and DC optimizers
• Decoupling techniques for mitigating the circulation of common mode current in photovoltaic inverters
• Fast maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for photovoltaic inverters
• Filters with a high attenuation factor for grid-connected photovoltaic systems
• Low-voltage ride through (LVRT) schemes for photovoltaic inverters
• Modeling and control of grid-connected photovoltaic inverters
• Partial power processing applied to photovoltaic systems
• Power converters for photovoltaic applications
• Stability analysis of multiconverter photovoltaic systems
• Techniques for suppression of the double-line frequency oscillation in the single-phase photovoltaic inverters
• Virtual synchronous machine (VSM)