One of the maximum popular renewable electricity assets is photovoltaics. Grid-connected photovoltaic structures are designed to generate as a lot strength as possible. Photovoltaic systems have nonlinear traits imposed with the aid of environmental factors consisting of radiation and temperature, making it hard to operate at the most power factor. It may additionally be tough to extract the maximum amount of electricity due to the formation of nearby maxima because of other factors which include shading or degradation. There are several MPPT algorithms and approaches that may be used for this. Publications with comparative analyses have also been released. However, in most of these works, comparisons are based on simulations or literature review. From the simplest to the most complex MPPT methods, empirical validation remains important. The two simplest and most widely used MPPT techniques are the perturbation, open-loop, and incremental conductance algorithms. The three most challenging ones are sliding mode control, backstepping controller, and particle swarm optimization. Therefore, five MPPT algorithms are empirically studied in this paper. Under test settings, Matlab/Simulink was used to conduct experimental experiments. The findings demonstrate that under ordinary operating circumstances, the backstepping algorithm is the only one capable of finding the global MPP under the influence of local shadowing.