Comparative study of the three equivalent models’ response of solar cell

Abstract

The photovoltaic cell is the main part of the solar energy conversion. The analysis of the response of the solar cell becomes a necessity. In the literature the solar cell is generally modeled by three equivalent electrical circuits. There are single diode, double diode and triple diodes model. the aim of this paper is to study the accuracy of each model. Therefore, by comparing the generated errors between each model and those obtained by measured data from RTC France solar cell, it was proven that the triple diodes model is the most precise among the three models. errors functions like RMSE and IAE were used to demonstrate this outcome.