Inverter and method of operating inverter

The invention relates to an inverter and a method of operating the inverter. A method of operating a transformerless inverter having first and second half-bridges comprises operating the two half-bridges in a unipolar clocking method and determining the leakage current value of the grid frequency on the DC terminal of the inverter; the two half-bridges are arranged parallel to each other and parallel to the intermediate circuit between the DC terminals, the bridge outputs of which are respectively connected via a filter choke to the AC output connected to the grid, assigned to the respective half-bridge. The low-impedance circuit of the filter capacitor coupled to the intermediate circuit is arranged between the AC outputs. The method is characterized in that when the leakage current valueexceeds a limit value, the two half-bridges are operated with a clocking method that reduces the leakage current, wherein the first half-bridge provides an amplitude lower than 50% of the amplitude of the grid voltage at the