Control of photovoltaic technology
Abstract
In this chapter, an overview of photovoltaic (PV) technology is presented. Semiconductors form the basis of a PV cell. Starting from an introduction of semiconductor physics, detailed modeling and operational characteristics of PV system are provided. To extract the maximum power from a PV system, various maximum power point tracking algorithms need to be implemented. A few of such algorithms are discussed in brief. Shading, either full or partial, affects the operation of a PV system to a large extent. The impact of shading and mitigation techniques is described in this work. ...
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