The development of renewable energies particularly energy from wind, water, solar power and biomass is a central aim of the European Commission's energy policy. There are several reasons for this choice: renewable energies are sustainable, nonpolluting, widely available and clean. Increasing the share of renewable energy in the energy balance enhances sustainability. It also helps to improve th...

School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University. Vellore – 632014. Tamilnadu. India In this paper, we present a novel maximum power point tracking method for a photovoltaic system consisting of a photovoltaic panel with a power electronic converter; the whole is feeding a battery. This maximum power point depends on the temperature and irradiation conditions. A robust control using a PI regula...

This paper mainly studies scheduling type photovoltaic generation system, and establishes a three-phase photovoltaic grid-connected model in Matlab/Simulink, which uses the MPPT control that can make full use of the solar energy. At the same time, energy storage device is added. The inverter of the energy storage device adopts V/f control. In the running state of the islanding because of a cert...

The photovoltaic-diesel-battery (PDB) hybrid system is proposed previously to satisfy power requirements in some remote areas locating out of national power grid. However, to dispatch the uses of different components in PDB hybrid system remains a problem. In this paper, mathematical model of the PDB hybrid system is transformed into an MIMO linear statespace form, and model predictive control ...

In this paper an optimal placement of photovoltaic systems (PV) as a source of active and reactive power in radial distribution networks is considered. The objective function of this problem is minimizing system losses and improving voltage profile. Genetic Algorithm (GA) implemented for this purpose. Photovoltaic solar systems can be used as STATCOM for voltage regulation and power factor corr...

The increasing penetration of renewable sources with power-electronic interfaces in power systems is raising technical problems and the overall efficiency of photovoltaic systems can decrease dramatically. In this context, the optimal layout for the photovoltaic system is required. The most adequate strategy to connect the renewable system to the electrical power grid or to supply the end users...

Autonomous photovoltaic panels are intermittent sustainable energy sources which require energy storage to balance generation and demand, as photovoltaic generation is time and weather dependent. Traditionally batteries are the most common storage technology for photovoltaic systems. Photovoltaic batteries can encounter extended periods of low State of Charge (SOC), resulting in sulphation and ...

This paper presents a new three-phase hybrid active power filter configuration that interconnects a passive high-pass filter in parallel with an active power filter and a photovoltaic system. The proposed configuration can improves the filtering performance of the conventional active power filter, as well as simultaneously supply the power from the photovoltaic arrays to the load and utility. T...