It is important to drive solar photovoltaic (PV) system to its utmost capacity using maximum power point (MPP) tracking algorithms. This paper presents a direct MPP prediction method for a PV system considering the geometry of the I–V characteristic of a solar cell and a module. In the first...

The determination of values of solar cell parameters is of great interest for the evaluation of solar cell performance. This paper proposes a simple, efficient and reliable method to extract all five parameters of a solar cell from a single illuminated current–voltage (I–V) characteristic...