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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Southampton

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Article title

Improved optimization strategy for irradiance equalization in dynamic photovoltaic arrays

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1109/TPEL.2012.2221481

Title of journal

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

2946

ISSN of journal

0885-8993

Year of publication

2013

URL

http://www.eprints.soton.ac.uk/344340

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Significance of output:

A paper which highlights the benefits of an optimization strategy for electrical rather than physical reconfiguration of PV panels, and demonstrates more than a 10% improvement in PV power efficiency. The work is based upon a radical new optimization algorithm that operates within a fraction of a second - previous approaches took minutes or even hours to converge. The concept described in this paper led to: the subsequent receipt of a best paper award at the IEEE PEDG conference; industrial collaborations with Prometheus (stuartrbarnes@btinternet.com) and ASV Global (dan@asvglobal.com); EPSRC Capital Grant for Great Technologies http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2013/Pages/85million.aspx (£2.8M).

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

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Non-English

English abstract