Modeling and simulation of renewable energy source using MPPT techniques

This paper presents the recent studies on output characteristic of photovoltaic module supplying load with and without maximum power point technique. Since the photovoltaic array output is known to be affected by radiation of sun and the temperature, which makes it compulsory to find out an effective method to draw out maximum power from photovoltaic cell/modules. In this paper, Perturb and Observe algorithm is used for modeling and simulation of the maximum power point technique. A comparison has been done in terms of I-V, P-V, and power verses time characteristics obtained from both the models from a 235W PV module.