The installed capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) based generating power plants has
increased significantly in the last couple of decades compared to the various renewable …

Since the last decade, partial shading conditions (PSCs) and its adverse influences on
photovoltaic (PV) system performance have received due attention. It motivates researchers …

The perturb and observe (P&O) algorithm is a simple and efficient technique, and is one of
the most commonly employed maximum power point (MPP) tracking (MPPT) schemes for …

A photovoltaic (PV) generation system (PGS) is becoming increasingly important as
renewable energy sources due to its advantages such as absence of fuel cost, low …

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are one of the main actors in distributed power generation. In
particular, in urban contexts, the PV generators can be subjected to mismatching …

Partial shading conditions decrease the power output from PV arrays. In partial shading
conditions the PV modules of the array receive the different solar irradiation, so the arrays …

As photovoltaic (PV) system suffers considerable energy loss due to partial shading (PS),
various approaches have been proposed to mitigate this problem. Among these, improving …

The penetration of photovoltaics (PV's) in electric power generation is continually increasing.
Tracking maximum power point in PV systems is an important task and represents a …

Under partial shading conditions, photovoltaic (PV) arrays exhibit multiple local maximum
power points and a single global maximum power point in the PV characteristics curves …

Partially shaded conditions (PSCs) often occur in large photovoltaic generation systems
(PGSs). PSCs cause losses in system output power, hot spot effects, and system safety and …