ABSTRACT
Efficient electric generation and viable and effective load control for alternative or renewable energy sources usually requires heavy investment and is usually accompanied by an ambiguous decision-making analysis that takes into consideration the intermittence of input power and demand. Therefore, in order to amortize the installation costs in the shortest possible time, optimization of electric power transfer, even for the sake of relatively small incremental gains, is of paramount importance. This chapter presents practical approaches based on hill climbing control and fuzzy logic control for peak power tracking control of induction-generator-based renewable energy systems.
