Development of a photovoltaic simulator with novel simulation method of photovoltaic characteristics

This paper propose photovoltaic simulator with a novel simulation method of Photovoltaic (PV) characteristics. The equation of photovoltaic characteristic is very complex and non linear system. So it is too difficult to implement a PV simulator using this method. To overcome this problem, this paper describe simple novel method using only photovoltaic voltage, current curve from PV module´s databook on standard test condition. The prototype PV simulator is introduced to experimentally verify the proposed method.