New Trends in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 4703
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reconfigurable photovoltaic systems; renewable energy systems; hybrid energy systems; control on energy systems; smart grids and collaborative microgrids
Interests: electric power conversion; control of power converters; energy processing and management of renewable energy systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Renewable energy had another record year in 2019, as installed power capacity grew by more than 200 GW, its largest increase to date. Of this growth, 115 GW has been due to new photovoltaic (PV) solar installations, reaching a global capacity of 627 GW and approaching the 651 GW installed of wind power. All this has been driven by a reduction to the cost of PV modules to a world average of USD 0.36 per watt, becoming the lowest price in history.
This continuous growth has stimulated the evolution of technological advances in grid-connected photovoltaic (GCPV) systems, which account for 99% of PV systems in the world. In this context, addressing recent advances and new challenges in this field is almost mandatory. Accordingly, the use of transparent PV cells in building integrated application, the use of hybrid photovoltaic–thermal (PVT) collectors in district heating, and powering application or the raising of floating solar PV plants (floatovoltaic systems), and solar-based charging stations for EV are only a few examples of these recent advances.
The aim of this Special Issue is to publish original works related to recent advances in GCPV systems and thus promote the massive use of renewable PV energy. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following areas:
- Feasibility studies for GCPV systems;
- Advances in modeling and control of GCPV systems;
- Advances in optimization and sizing of GCPV systems;
- New trends in power electronics topologies for GCPV systems;
- Advances in maximum power point tracking (MPPT and GMPPT) algorithms;
- Advances in power quality improvement in GCPV systems;
- Advances in reliability and resilience of GCPV systems;
- New trends in electrical vehicles (EV) recharging in on- and off-grid environments;
- New trends in PV energy-based optimal battery recharging systems.
Dr. Guillermo Velasco-Quesada
Dr. Herminio Martínez-García
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Grid integration
- Sizing of grid-connected PV systems
- Modeling of grid-connected PV systems
- DC–DC and DC–AC converters
- MPPT and GMPPT control
- Anti-islanding protection
- Power quality improvement
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