Maximum Power Point Voltage Prediction for Solar Photo Voltaic Panel Using Artificial Neural Network

摘要

solar energy is the most rapidly growing renewable energy resource. in the past five years, it is gaining very much popularity in India as well as in many developing countries. Much research work is going on to increase the efficiency of the solar panels as well as to extract the maximum power from the solar panels as much as possible. The difficulty with the solar panel is that it is having non-linear characteristics that means its operating point gets shifted with the change in irradiation level and temperature. This research is dedicated to modeling a photovoltaic panel and understanding its non-linear characteristics with various irradiation levels and temperatures. Along with that maximum power point voltage prediction by using artificial neural networks is done. The simulation model is made on MatLab Simulink and by collecting various data from the Simulink model an artificial neural network-based network is modeled which is having the ability to predict the value of the voltage at which maximum power can be extracted from solar PV panel and maximize the efficiency of the solar PV panel..