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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Strathclyde
A maximum power point tracking technique for partially shaded photovoltaic systems in microgrids
Maximum power extraction from renewable sources is economically important. Such extraction from PV farms is complicated by the physical nature of PVs: with a PV large surface area, light intensity variation and shading are inevitable. This research presents a novel solution to shaded PV maximum power extraction. The research was motivated by an international collaborative research programme between Prof Nasrudin Abdul Rahim [nasrudin@um.edu.my], of the University of Malaya and an industrial contract with a Malaysian PV manufacturer, EndauPV Industries. This, and other journal publications [10.1109/TIE.2011.2168796, 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2229218], resulted from two-month visiting professor sabbaticals at the University of Malaya in 2010-2012.
