Power electronics building block concepts

Power electronics building block (PEBB) is a generic strategic concept incorporating several technology aspects, which has been foreseen as key to major reduction in cost, losses, size and weight of power electronics. It is a broad concept that incorporates individually or collectively progressive integration of power devices, gate drives, and other components to functional blocks for multiple applications resulting in reduced cost, losses, weight and size, and engineering effort for the application of power electronics. In this paper, different scope of applications for PEBB concept that relate to utility power systems is presented.