Evaluation of the hill climbing and the incremental conductance maximum power point trackers for photovoltaic power systems

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 922-929

  Kjær, Soren Bækhoj ^a  

^a DANFOSS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Benchmark testing; efficiency; maximum power point tracker (MPPT); photovoltaic (PV) power systems; solar power generation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK TESTING; DYNAMIC CONDITION; HILL CLIMBING; INCREMENTAL CONDUCTANCE; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKER; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; PV ARRAYS; SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION;

EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84870291235     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2012.2218816     Document Type: Article

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