A Novel FSD Reconfiguration Technique for Dynamic Shading in Photovoltaic Systems

Among theDynamic shading highest importantPhotovoltaic system factors that can affect the powerPower generation and energyEnergy efficiencyEfficiency of a photovoltaicPhotovoltaic (PV) system is the condition of partial shading condition (PSC). Under these conditions, PV system panels receive different radiation levels that affect the solarSolar photovoltaicPhotovoltaic (SPV) system’s output powerPower in terms of mismatch and cable losses, while also reducing the system's efficiencyEfficiency. Different topologiesTopology and methods of conventionalConventional and hybrid PV panels are proposed in the literature to tackle this problem. This chapter discusses three such static reconfiguration techniques (SRT) which are analyzed for dynamic shadingDynamic shading by considering the dynamic movement of the shade in horizontal and vertical directions and are compared with the proposed Futo-Sumdoku (FSD) reconfiguration technique. In this chapter, a 5 × 5 PV arrayPhotovoltaic Array is simulated in a MATLABMATLAB/Simulink environment to evaluate their metrics such as global maximum power pointGlobal maximum power point (GMPP), mismatch lossesMismatch losses (ML), and fill factorFill factor (FF).