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1764 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 28, NO. 4, APRIL 2013 Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Solar Power Optimizer for DC Distribution System Shih-Ming (Orion) Chen, Student Member, IEEE, Tsorng-Juu (Peter) Liang, Member, IEEE, and Ke-Ren Hu Abstract—This paper proposes a high step-up solar power op- timizer (SPO) that efficiently harvests maximum energy from a photovoltaic (PV) panel then outputs energy to a dc-microgrid. Its structure integrates coupled inductor and switched capacitor technologies to realize high step-up voltage gain. The leakage in- ductance energy of the coupled inductor can be recycled to re- duce voltage stress and power losses. A low voltage rating and low-conduction resistance switch improves system efficiency by employing the incremental conductance method for the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm. Because of its high track- ing accuracy, the method is widely used in the energy harvesting of PV systems. laboratory prototypes of the proposed SPO that have an input voltage range of 20 to 40 V and a maximum PV output power of 400 V/300 W are applied. The highest PV power conver- sion efficiency is 96.7%. The maximum MPPT accuracy is 99.9%, and the full load average MPPT accuracy is 97.8%. Index Terms—High step-up voltage gain, maximum power point Fig. 1. Configuration of multiple parallel SPO for a dc-microgrid system. tracking (MPPT), solar power optimizer (SPO). I. INTRODUCTION system energy’s harvesting efficiency and entails high costs. A OSSIL fuels continue to be depleted, and their use has been solar power optimizer (SPO) was developed as an alternative to Finstrumental to