A quantitative and comparative performance evaluation of PV models on PSPICE platform

Abstract

Despite of the abundant resource potential and availability of conventional resources like oil and gas in many countries is moving toward the sustainable energy like solar power. Even though these country's has a substantial amount of installed capacity largely based on renewable energy like hydropower, but these resources yield fluctuates greatly during the drought season, forcing to rely on expensive emergency thermal units which again considerably affects the environmental balance but by implementing solar power resources substantial difference can be brought in the environmental circumstances. This paper presents simulation and study of PV cells using the generic model on PSPICE platform. Using PSPICE circuit simulator voltage and current variation can be verified under different a set of condition. Diode based models are used to conduct the studies which are classified on the basis of number of diodes. This paper provides a comparative behavioral study of different models under varying condition of temperature, diode parameter, solar insolation, and etc. This study helps in sketching out the performance evaluation under different circuit topology and control strategy.