Energy saving potential of WBG-commercial power converters in different applications

This work estimates the yearly global energy savings potential of different power electronics applications featuring commercial wide bandgap (WBG)-based power converters. It is the first study analyzing real products in the market. We show that WBG-based products exhibit considerable energy-saving potential in all investigated applications. Further, because of the large annual increase of installed photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV)-charger converters, we estimate future energy-saving potential.