A Novel Fused Fibonacci-Geometric Number Pattern-Based PV Array Configuration for Mitigating the Mismatch Losses

The energy consumption rate of the modern world is raised rapidly, increasing the demand for power generation. Solar photovoltaic power generation is one of the technologies that support the power system to meet energy demand. The power generated by PV technology has been limited by various factors like shading effects, hotspots, uncertain environmental conditions, and so on. Due to these factors, the PV system has very low power conversion efficiency. For increasing the power conversion rate of PV, many methodologies like Maximum PowerPoint Tracking, reconfiguration methods, and array configuration methods were used. In this work, a new kind of array configuration method has been proposed. The array configuration is very effective for the PV system as it not requires any additional equipment. Conventional array configuration methods are following different patterns like Total Cross Tied, SuDoKu puzzle, honeycomb, bridge linked, Knight pattern, etc., The objective of each configuration is to reduce the mismatched power between the PV modules. The effectiveness of these configurations differed with respect to the optimum distance between the selected PV modules and the shading patterns. In this paper, a new kind of array configuration is developed by fusing two number patterns such as the Fibonacci number and geometric number. The performance of the proposed array configuration has been validated under all possible shading patterns and compared with the conventional configurations.