In this study, a new multilevel inverter configuration which introduces a combination of cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter with a double level circuit is proposed. The double level circuit is a half-bridge inverter when combined with a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter, will increase the output voltage level to nearly twice that of a conventional cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter. The effectiveness of the proposed configuration is demonstrated with five different cases of cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter configurations. Phase disposition carriers arrangement with sinusoidal reference has been utilised in pulse width modulation for generating the gating signal of switches to achieve high-quality output voltage waveform. A comparison is carried out with different parameters such as %total harmonic distortion, distortion factor, the maximum voltage step of output voltage level and peak inverse voltage. Analysis of power loss and theoretical calculation of %total harmonic distortion is described. Also, a new method for calculating the overall component count is discussed. As a result, the proposed configuration requires lesser component count for generating higher output voltage level with lower %total harmonic distortion. Selected simulation and experimental results are shown to verify and validate the proposed multilevel inverter configuration. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology.