Maximum power point matching versus maximum power point tracking for solar generators

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-17

  Kuperman, Alon ^a   Averbukh, Moshe ^b   Lineykin, Simon ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Load matching; MPPT; Solar Array

Indexed keywords

ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; LINEAR LOADS; LOAD MATCHING; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MPPT; RESISTIVE LOADS; SOLAR ARRAYS; SOLAR GENERATOR; SYSTEM ENERGY; VOLTAGE SOURCE; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 84870217909     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.11.012     Document Type: Review

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