A comparative study of central and distributed MPPT architectures for megawatt utility and large scale commercial photovoltaic plants

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2753-2758

  Elasser, Ahmed ^a   Agamy, Mohammed ^a   Sabate, Juan ^a   Steigerwald, Robert ^a   Fisher, Rayette ^a   Harfman Todorovic, Maja ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; ENERGY YIELDS; HIGH VOLTAGE; LOW VOLTAGES; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; PARTIAL SHADING; PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANT; PV MODULES; THIN FILM MODULES; TRADE-OFF STUDY;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; LOCATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78751501247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2010.5675108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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