A novel reconfiguration procedure to extract maximum power from partially-shaded photovoltaic arrays

This paper presents a new reconfiguration procedure, named power comparison technique (PCT), to extract maximum power from photovoltaic arrays. PCT introduces optimum configuration and maximum power point (MPP) of photovoltaic arrays in partial shading conditions. PCT finds absolute MPP and its corresponding configuration via comparing whole peaks of power-voltage (P-V) curve of a photovoltaic (PV) array. This will ensure that the right-hand...