With the availability of powerful and low cost computing power, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) that utilizes soft computing (SC) techniques are attracting substantial interests from the PV communities. Due to their flexibility and ability to handle non-linear problems, robust SC-based MPPT...

Successfully developing and manufacturing industrial products requires considering the economic- and environmental-factors that span multiple spatial- and temporal-scales. Here, we propose an integrated approach combining an energy-economic model with a life-cycle assessment to analyze the...

The production of electricity from renewable sources plays a strategic role in the future of energy because it helps to effectively manage climate change through an energy generation portfolio with lower emissions of greenhouse gases.

Based on the fact that PV systems are clean, environment friendly and secure energy sources, PV system installation has played an important role worldwide. However, the drawback of PV system is the high capital cost as compared to conventional energy sources. Currently, many research works are...

This work proposes a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) for PV system using Cuckoo Search (CS) method.