Advanced Hybrid Wind-Solar Power System with Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithms

The requirement of production of electricity from renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy increases rapidly for 21 st century needs. This paper reports the development of wind/photovoltaic power generation system and also describes the Wind-Solar Hybrid system for supplying electricity to the Load and describe various MPPT techniques namely Perturb and Observe(P&O), Incremental Conductance(INC) and Fuzzy Logic based MPPT controller and their performance.  This paper presents modelling, simulation, and performance study of Hybrid generation system with PI and MPPT controller. The Wind power generation system uses Wind Turbine (WT), a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG), a three phase controlled Rectifier Bridge with PI controller, a dc bus with a capacitor and a current regulated PWM voltage source inverter. The PV cell model is developed including the effects of changing solar irradiation and temperature and Maximum power from PV cell is obtained by using MPPT controller. Simulation results of Hybrid system using various MPPT techniques are provided.