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Abstract Photovoltaic energy is a free, clean and non pollutant renewable energy source. The costs of PV energy production have been reduced during the last decade and will continue decreasing in the future. On the other hand, prices for fossil energy sources increase dramatically. Therefore, photovoltaic energy is promising source of energy for many of world countries. PV systems are a green power source, which can convert sunlight to electrical energy. PV systems may be subjected to electrical change of operating conditions due to change in insolation ((short for incident or incoming solar radiation) is a measure of solar radiation energy received on a given surface area and recorded during a given time. It is also called solar irradiation) levels and ambient temperature. . Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) (it is algorithm that included in charge controllers used for extracting maximum available power from PV module under certain conditions) techniques are used in PV systems to maximize the PV array output power by tracking continuously maximum power point which depends on panel’s temperature and on insolation conditions. These techniques vary in many aspects as simplicity, digital or analogical implementation, sensor required, convergence speed, and range of effectiveness, implementation hardware, popularity, and cost and in other aspects. This thesis presents, in details, a study and implementation of two most popular techniques which are incremental conductance and perturb & observe algorithms. Buck and buck-boost converters are used in this study. Little comparison such as voltage, current and output power for each different combination, has been recorded. Also in this thesis a study of Modeling and Simulation of a Grid Connected Photovoltaic System, an inverters designed for grid-connected photovoltaic arrays that can synchronize a sinusoidal current output with a voltage grid. The main points discussed here are the MPP tracking algorithm, control inverter and its connection to the grid. There are two main goals of this thesis. The first goal is design and implementation of PV module connected with DC load directly (off-grid).The second goal is design and implementation of a Photovoltaic system connected with electricity grid directly (on-grid mode). Matlab /simulink package has been used in this study; this Simulation will consider different solar irradiance variations and constant temperature. |