As the concerns about global warming and change in climate increases, a large focus is on improving distributed energy sources, which includes renewable energy sources. Renewable energy is the future source of energy. Improvement in power electronics has played an important role in incorporating the usage of renewable energy in our day-to-day life. Integrating various energy sources by means of converters by providing very high efficiency, good quality of power and reliability has become an important issue in these days. Most of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) supply DC supply that varies over a wider rage, depending on load conditions. Therefore, a DC to AC power interface compatible with various standards is necessary. Multi-level inverters are apt for such applications since they can provide high volt-ampere ratings especially in renewable energy powered applications. This paper presents the A review on multi level inverter topologies and control schemes of multilevel inverters for renewable energy conversions.