Design and simulation of Solar PV system

The demand of the electrical power is increasing per day which is supplied by fossil fuels resulting into huge carbon emissions in the atmosphere, which leads the electrical engineers to generate the power by using the renewable energy sources. This paper is aimed at simulation and development of Solar PV system which is able to fulfil the power demand in the isolated locations or in standalone condition. The system consists of various components like PV solar panel, DC-DC converter (Step up converter) and two level inverter connected to load. The controlling of input loop of the solar PV system is shown with the help of PI controller for maintaining the dc link constant irrespective of changes in the input side and output side parameters resulting into the constant inverter output. The simulations are performed in the MATLAB SIMULINK software.