A Review on Solar Thermal PV Modeling & its Characteristics

One of the cleanest sources of energy is sun's energy which has been transferred into electrical current through solar photovoltaic cell. It is environmentally friendly as because it is free from mechanical and thermal interlink. A typical solar PV module consists of 72 nos. of PV cells, which when connected in series and parallel usually produces DC voltage between 23 volts to 45 volts, with a maximum power of 320 watt which again depends upon the amount of solar radiation and environmental temperature. Modeling of Photovoltaic module and its characteristics under temperature and irradiance variation condition along with MPPT is described in this chapter. A typical PV module consists of either 36 cell or 72 cells connected in series.