Distributed PV-battery architectures with reconfigurable power conversion units

A family of single-stage converters called Reconfigurable Solar Converter (RSC) is presented for integration of energy storage with a PV system where ramp-rate control and peak-shifting is desired. An algorithm designed to reduce the variability of photovoltaic (PV) power output by using a battery demonstrates the PV power output smoothing. The purpose of the battery is to add power to the PV output (or subtract power from the PV output) to...