Ahmad Shukri RAHMAN FAZIL, Abdul Rahim RAZAK ABDUL, Syed Idris HASSAN SYED

A conceptual implementation of a buck converter for an off-grid hybrid system consisting of solar and wind turbine sources

A hybrid renewable power generation system is proposed through parallel connection between two potential energy resources: photovoltaic (PV) and wind turbines. The method consists of incorporating a buck converter connected by a wind turbine to provide adjustment according to PV potential. Unlike the conventional buck-boost converter topology that is normally used, this research tries to emphasize the use of a buck converter as part of the system configuration. Design schemes were carefully performed and the postdesign system was tested through system simulation with MATLAB/Simulink software. The simulated system offers promising and significant results, thus making it suitable for hardware implementation.

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