Modelling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB / Simulink

The use of renewable energy sources has increased rapidly today, and the easy availability of solar energy and its abundance in nature are one step ahead of other renewable energy sources. The rapid increase in the technological infrastructure, especially to obtain electricity from solar energy by photovoltaic (PV) method, has also accelerated the process of integrating PV systems into people's daily life. In this study, the solar cell model was obtained by using a solar cell equivalent circuit with Matlab Simulink and a 5.3 kW PV generator was designed using this structure. Also, the performance of the PV module has been analyzed under different temperature and solar irradiation conditions. Thanks to the developed model, it is aimed to use PV model generators with different technical features and different installed power more easily. Methodology in this project study was to create a circuit model of a solar cell in the Matlab Simulink program, modeling this model as a subsystem.