{"title":"Economical, PV maximum power point tracking regulator with simplistic controller","authors":"S. Wolf, J. Enslin","doi":"10.1109/PESC.1993.471985","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A 30% cost reduction of photovoltaic generation can be brought about by the investment in a novel, highly efficient maximum power point tracker (MPPT). Such a power converter is currently under development, implementing a feedforward output current controller as tracking algorithm. The DC-DC power converter, typical of a MPPT, exploits the efficient high-frequency operation, associated with zero-transition switching. Thus the output filter only consists of the combination of a storage battery and its cabling. The resulting power converter is suitable for integration into standard PV panels during manufacturing. The efficiency of the MPPT is 96% for a range of output powers at a low battery voltage of 12.5 V and a component cost of US$21.00.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":358822,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference - PESC '93","volume":"133 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"45","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference - PESC '93","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESC.1993.471985","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A 30% cost reduction of photovoltaic generation can be brought about by the investment in a novel, highly efficient maximum power point tracker (MPPT). Such a power converter is currently under development, implementing a feedforward output current controller as tracking algorithm. The DC-DC power converter, typical of a MPPT, exploits the efficient high-frequency operation, associated with zero-transition switching. Thus the output filter only consists of the combination of a storage battery and its cabling. The resulting power converter is suitable for integration into standard PV panels during manufacturing. The efficiency of the MPPT is 96% for a range of output powers at a low battery voltage of 12.5 V and a component cost of US$21.00.<>