The optimized-string dynamic photovoltaic array

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1768-1776

  Storey, Jonathan ^a   Wilson, Peter R ^a   Bagnall, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic photovoltaic array (DPVA); irradiance profiling; reconfigurable

Indexed keywords

IRRADIANCE PROFILES; IRRADIANCE PROFILING; MAXIMUM POWER EXTRACTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS; POWER OUT PUT; RECONFIGURABLE; SUB-STRINGS;

MATLAB; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84886679595     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2265497     Document Type: Article

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