The insufficiency in terms of energy density and efficient operation faced by the renewable energy sources, have resulted in the development of multiple source integrating systems which can do the needful and effectively fill the deficiency gap which are inherent to the previous works in the same field. In the present work, a power electronics based triple source integration system has been designed which utilizes a Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV) system, a Battery Energy Storage (BES) system and an Ultra-Capacitor (UC) bank to supply the load. The designed converter system not only effectively harvests energy from all the sources having different voltage–current characteristics but also ably provide the provision of connecting each source either individually or collectively to feed the load. The converter topology also bears the benefit of bidirectional power flow capability with the added feature of buck operation, boost operation and buck-boost operation. A pulse width modulated controller is designed for controlling the power electronic switches and the entire simulation study is performed in MATLAB / Simulink environment.

Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV), Battery Energy Storage (BES), Ultra-Capacitor (UC), Triple Input Converter (TIC), Hybrid Energy System.

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