Reliability issues in photovoltaic power processing systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2569-2580

  Petrone, Giovanni ^a   Spagnuolo, Giovanni ^a   Teodorescu, Remus ^b   Veerachary, Mummadi ^c   Vitelli, Massimo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inverters; Maximum power point tracking (MPPT); Photovoltaic (PV) systems; Power electronics; Power processing; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

ELECTRIC POWERS; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; FUTURE CHALLENGES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-RELIABILITY; KEY FACTORS; OPEN PROBLEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; POWER PROCESSING;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 47049125539     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.924016     Document Type: Article

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