The electrical demand is quickly increased, and renewable energy sources are an indispensable need for supporting the electric grid and supplying the isolated loads. Renewable energy is found in numerous forms like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy. Solar power system is clean, and large amounts of solar radiation arrive to the surface of the earth. This paper aims to maximize the amount of extracted electrical power from the solar energy system. This work investigates in detail the concept of MPPT techniques which significantly increase the efficiency of the solar PV system. This paper presents a simulation-based comparative study between two most common algorithms, perturb and observe and incremental conductance techniques, to optimize the energy conversion efficiency of PV system. Simulation analysis and results of the PV module are made to get its characteristics.

Summary This paper presents a study of the interaction between loads, utility grids, and different devices of power quality enhancement. The essential motive of this study is mainly focused on the use of power electronic devices that are applicable to distribution systems, very responsive to disturbances in order to provide power quality improvement and solutions, and also to develop a model of these three FACTS devices (DVR, DSTATCOM, and UPQC) for enhancement of power quality in electrical grids. The DVR is a power quality that is applied as an efficient solution for the safeguard of sensitive loads with voltage troubles in distribution systems like voltage dips and rises related to faults. DVR efficiency depends upon the control method performance involved in switching the inverters. However, the transient response of the DSTATCOM compensating is very significant for nonlinearly varying and unbalanced loads. The UPQC is applied as an active power conditioning unit to alleviate both voltage and current harmonics at a distribution of the power system grid. The response of UPQC at most depends on how readily and carefully compensation signs are obtained by using control units. The various kinds of controllers are suggested for three devices applied here like PI and fuzzy logic controllers. The above modeling has been carried out on a distribution system for the power quality enhancement. A new design for the enhancement of PQ‐based FACTS for the test results given from different control methods such as PI and FLC is given in this paper.

The derivation of PV model parameters is crucial for the optimization, control, and simulation of PV systems. Although many parameter extraction algorithms have been developed to address this issue, they might have some limitations. This work presents an efficient hybrid optimization approach for reliably and effectively extracting PV parameters based on the hunter–prey optimizer (HPO) technique. The proposed HPO technique is a new population-based optimizer inspired by the behavior of prey and predator animals. In the proposed HPO mechanism, the predator attacks the prey that leaves the prey population. Accordingly, the position of a hunter is adjusted toward this distant prey, while the position of the prey is adjusted towards a secure place. The search agent’s position, which represents the best fitness function value, is considered a secure place. The proposed HPO technique worked as suggested when parameters are extracted from several PV models, including single-, double-, and triple-diode models. Moreover, a statistical error analysis was used to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method. The proposed HPO technique outperformed other recently reported techniques in terms of convergence speed, dependability, and accuracy, according to simulation data.

In recent modern power systems, the number of renewable energy systems (RESs) and nonlinear loads have become more prevalent. When these systems are connected to the electricity grid, they may face new difficulties and issues such as harmonics and non-standard voltage. The proposed study suggests the application of a whale optimization algorithm (WOA) based on a fractional-order proportional-integral controller (FOPIC) for unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) and STATCOM tools. These operate best with the help of their improved control system, to increase the system’s reliability and fast dynamic response, and to decrease the total harmonic distortion (THD) for enhancing the power quality (PQ). In this article, three different configurations are studied and assessed, namely: (C1) WOA-based FOPIC for UPQC, (C2) WOA-based FOPIC for STATCOM, and (C3) system without FACTS, i.e., base case, to mitigate the mentioned drawbacks. C3 is also considered as a base case to highlight the main benefits of C1 and C2 in improving the PQ by reducing the %THD of the voltage and current system and improving the systems’ voltage waveforms. With C2, voltage fluctuation is decreased by 98%, but it nearly disappears in C1 during normal conditions. Additionally, during the fault period, voltage distortion is reduced by 95% and 100% with C2 and C1, respectively. Furthermore, when comparing C1 to C2 and C3 under regular conditions, the percentage reduction in THD is remarkable. In addition, C1 eliminates the need for voltage sag, and harmonic and current harmonic detectors, and it helps to streamline the control approach and boost control precision. The modeling and simulation of the prepared system are performed by MATLAB/Simulink. Finally, it can be concluded that the acquired results are very interesting and helpful in the recovery to the steady state of wind systems and nonlinear loads, thereby increasing their grid connection capabilities.

Attaining highly secure and safe operation of the grid with acceptable voltage levels has become a difficult issue for electricity companies that must adopt remedial actions. The usage of a PV solar farm inverter as a static synchronous compensator (or PVSTATCOM device) throughout the night has recently been proposed as a way to enhance the system performance. In this article, the novel artificial rabbits’ optimization algorithm (AROA) is developed for minimizing both the daily energy losses and the daily voltage profile considering different 24 h loadings. The novel AROA is inspired from the natural surviving strategies of rabbits. The novel AROA is tested on a typical IEEE 33-node distribution network including three scenarios. Different scenarios are implemented considering PV/STATCOM allocations throughout the day. The effectiveness of the proposed AROA is demonstrated in comparison to differential evolution (DE) algorithm and golden search optimization (GSO). The PVSTATCOM is adequately allocated based on the proposed AROA, where the energy losses are greatly reduced with 54.36% and the voltage deviations are greatly improved with 43.29%. Moreover, the proposed AROA provides no violations in all constraints while DE fails to achieve these limits. Therefore, the proposed AROA shows greater dependability than DE and GSO. Moreover, the voltage profiles at all distribution nodes all over the daytime hours are more than the minimum limit of 95%.