Research Article

A Hybrid Maximum Power Point Tracking Approach for Photovoltaic Systems under Partial Shading Conditions Using a Modified Genetic Algorithm and the Firefly Algorithm

Table 13

Comparison of evaluation results for the GA, FA, and the proposed method.

AlgorithmAveraged iterationsAveraged time (s)Averaged error (%)

GA16.430.2916.9
FA13.260.1564.59
Proposed method6.270.0892.74