Inverter
The inverter is usually installed in a building called the valve hall. Since the mid 1970s solid-state devices such as thyristors are used. Many thyristors are assembled into a module, the thyristor tower. The thyristor towers can stand on insulators on the floor or hang from insulators from the ceiling. Thyristor inverters require voltage from the AC network for commutation, but insulated gate bipolar transistors used in some HVDC designs can provide power to a de-energized AC system.