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6.2 Very Short-Term Forecasting in a Temporal Range
From 0 to 6 h.............................................................96
6.3 Solar Forecasting for Ranges Between 6 h and
Days Ahead.............................................................104
6.4 Reliability and Accuracy of the Forecasting Models .......104
7. The Future of the Renewable Energy Forecasting ................ 106
7.1 Now-Casting............................................................106
7.2 Six Hours Ahead Prediction and More..........................107
8. Conclusion.................................................................... 108
References......................................................................... 109
CHAPTER 4 Performance of MPPT Techniques of Photovoltaic
Systems Under Normal and Partial Shading
Conditions ........................................................... 115
Ali M. Eltamaly
1. Introduction .................................................................. 116
1.1 Direct-Coupled Method............................................117
1.2 Constant-Voltage MPPT...........................................117
1.3 Constant-Current MPPT...........................................118
1.4 Perturb and Observe Technique .................................118
1.5 Incremental Conductance Technique...........................118
1.6 Parasitic Capacitance Algorithm................................120
1.7 Ripple Correlation Control........................................120
1.8 Hill Climbing Technique ..........................................121
1.9 Fuzzy Logic Controller as MPPT...............................122
1.10 Particle Swarm Optimization MPPT Technique............122
2. PV System Under Nonshading Conditions.......................... 124
2.1 Simulation of PV System...........................................124
2.2 Simulation Results....................................................135
2.3 Experimental Work ...................................................137
3. Smart Maximum Power Point Tracker Under Partial
Shading Conditions ........................................................ 144
3.1 Partial Shading Effect................................................144
3.2 Mismatch Power Loss................................................148
3.3 Simulation of Proposed Systems..................................150
4. Conclusions................................................................... 156
References......................................................................... 157