Analysis of inverter-voltage influence on distributed MPPT architecture performance

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3900-3907

  Alonso, Ricardo ^a,b   Román, Eduardo ^b   Sanz, Asier ^a,b   Martínez Santos, Vcítor E ^a   Ibáñez, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed MPPT; power optimizer; PV inverter

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DC-DC CONVERTERS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS;

MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; POWER OPTIMIZER; PV INVERTER; PV SYSTEM; STATIC PERFORMANCE;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84860466701     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2189532     Document Type: Article

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