Interfacing renewable energy sources for maximum power transfer—Part I: Statics

Shlomo Gadelovits, Alon Kuperman, Moshe Sitbon, Ilan Aharon and Sigmond Singer

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014, vol. 31, issue C, 501-508

Abstract: The manuscript presents a method of interfacing renewable energy generators by means of Maximum Power Line tracking rather than Maximum Power Point tracking. The maximum power line connects the maximum power points of output I–V curves of a source for different values of power producing parameter (wind, solar insolation etc.) and may be estimated offline with moderate accuracy. As a result, during the online operation, the maximum power point tracker only has to compensate for maximum power line inaccuracy and changes caused by slow temperature variations and system parameters drift. The approach allows reducing dramatically the bandwidth of the MPP tracking algorithms and simplifying the implementation, making analog MPP trackers a viable choice. The proposed method is shown to be a generalized version of the well-known loss-free resistor concept, referred to as loss-free load in the manuscript. Several particular case examples of the proposed method presented in the literature are reviewed.

Keywords: Renewable energy; Power processing; Maximum power line (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032113008538
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:rensus:v:31:y:2014:i:c:p:501-508

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600126/bibliographic
http://www.elsevier. ... 600126/bibliographic

DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.12.039

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is currently edited by L. Kazmerski

More articles in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().