Book Chapter

·2024 OPEN ACCESS

The efficiency of solar panels and power control

Mai The Vu , Tianpeng Li , Mohammad Hosein Sabzalian , Khalid A. Alattas , Nasreen Kausar YTU , Ardashir Mohammadzadeh , Chunwei Zhang

Elsevier eBooks

Abstract

Solar panels are a good alternative to fossil fuels. However, despite their numerous advantages, their most important limitation is dependence on environmental conditions. To solve this problem, energy storage systems are used with solar panels. To set a fixed output voltage requires designing a strong switching system to use stored energy when solar energy drops below the required value due to environmental conditions, and to store it in a storage system when there is a surplus of solar energy. Moreover, solar panels have different capacities in different currents and always produce the most power in a specific current. This chapter investigates one of the effective controllers. Also solar panel modeling methods are reviewed.

Keywords

Control (management) Solar power Power (physics) Environmental science Electrical engineering Computer science Engineering Physics Artificial intelligence

Subject Areas

Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques ·Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ·Physical Sciences
Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics ·Artificial Intelligence ·Physical Sciences
Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems ·Energy Engineering and Power Technology ·Physical Sciences

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