Modelling and simulation of maximum power point tracking algorithms & review of MPPT techniques for PV applications

Abstract

This paper focuses on the mathematical modelling and simulation of Maximum Power Point algorithms to investigate tracking efficiency at different atmospheric conditions. This paper will review existing Maximum Power Point Tracking approaches. A 60W PV panel is modelled in MATLAB since panel current is taken as the input for maximum power point tracking. This paper presents a simulation based comparative study between two most popular techniques perturb and observe (P&O) and incremental conductance (InCond) to optimize the energy conversion efficiency of PV system.