Comparison of P&O and inceremental conductance based maximum power point tracking for wind turbine application in remote area (Case study: Gili genting Island, Madura, East Java, Indonesia)

Gili Genting Island is one of islands located in Madura, East Java, Indonesia. As one of remote area and tourisms places, Gili Genting Island is potential for developing wind power generator to support the population's activities, since the availability of wind exists all year. The study is to support developing renewable energy generation especially wind power generation in remote area. Maximum Power Point Tracking is one of important things to study for increasing the efficiency of the use of wind turbine. P&O and Incremental Conductance (IC) algorithms are studied and discussed to track the maximum power point for wind turbine. The results show that IC is better than P&O to get the maximum value, but has more ripples in the power output tracked.