Supervision of a Photovoltaic/Batteries System for Stand Alone Applications

TL;DR

This paper presents a simple, effective power management control for standalone photovoltaic/battery systems that ensures battery safety and reliable power supply, demonstrated through simulation results across different weather profiles.

Contribution

Introduces an easy-to-implement control method for PV/battery systems that maintains battery safety and system reliability without high computational demands.

Findings

Good system performance across different weather profiles

Effective battery safety management

Reliable power supply in isolated PV systems

Abstract

Our paper is focused on optimal and control of an isolated photovoltaic system with batteries. The control is made by the application of a power management control (PMC). Batteries are kept safe from deep discharges and overloads by the PMC, maintaining a continuous supply to the load. The ease, with which this method can be implemented, as well as its effectiveness without imposing a large computing strain on the user, is noteworthy. The batteries and PV panels in the system under study are connected to a bidirectional converter enabling the batteries to be charged and drained in accordance with weather conditions. The simulation results, clearly highlight good performance of the proposed control across two different profiles.