Matlab simscape simulation of an open voltage algorithm based maximum power point tracker for battery charging PV system

Currently, Photovoltaic (PV) energy is the most important energy resource in electrical power applications around the world since it is inexhaustible, clean and pollution free. As the output power from the PV arrays changing with solar irradiance and temperature, so it is necessary to operate the photovoltaic (PV) system at the maximum power point (MPP) to increase the power extraction from the solar panel. For this effective operation and maximum power extraction from a PV system, Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm plays a vital role by operating the PV energy system near the MPP. In this work, amongst several existing well established MPPT algorithms, the open voltage (OV) based algorithm is chosen for simulation of a PV system using Matlab / Simscape. As maximum power point (MPP) can be attained with a certain amount of load from the PV power system, so load matching is an important concept of MPPT algorithms. Here, the performances of this open voltage (OV) based algorithm method is evaluated for different values of solar radiation and battery was used as load to see the charging performance for the algorithm.