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The increase in linking photovoltaic (PV) power plants to utility grids are due to the world expansion in PV systems and its advantages of low running cost, renewable, etc. Although PV is now considered one of the main power sources in many countries, it has low efficiency. Therefore, the big issue to improve the efficiency is to enhance the interface inverters’ efficiency. Different inverter topologies have been proposed to relate to the PV panels; each has advantages and disadvantages. These topologies can be classified into two-stage and single-stage (impedance network) inverters. Impedance network inverters overcome the problems of traditional inverters and seek to realize the advantages of a two-stage system and reduce the number of power conversions. However, to the authors’ best knowledge, there is no comprehensive review of the applications of the impedance source inverter for the PV system …