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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2020
Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) Ltd, Hangzhou, CN;
Kaiwei Yao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhiyuan Shen, Hangzhou, CN;
Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD, Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
An apparatus for photovoltaic power generation can include: an inverter; and at least one photovoltaic optimizer, where input terminals of each photovoltaic optimizer are coupled to output terminals of a photovoltaic panel, and output terminals of each photovoltaic optimizer are coupled in series with each other between input terminals of the inverter; where a maximum power point of the photovoltaic panel is tracked in accordance with an input voltage of the inverter when the photovoltaic optimizer operates in a first mode; and the maximum power point of the photovoltaic panel is tracked in accordance with an output voltage of the photovoltaic panel when the photovoltaic optimizer operates in a second mode.