Abstract
<jats:p>Solar energy is clean, inexhaustible and environment friendly resource among all the renewable energy sources. But neither a standalone solar PV system nor a wind energy system can provide a continuous supply of energy due to periodic weather changes. Therefore, in order to satisfy the load demand, grid connected energy systems are now being implemented, that combines renewable energy power and utility grid. In this paper, a grid tied photovoltaic system was developed by omitting the storage device like large capacity battery bank. It will not only reduce the internal losses incurred in charging and discharging of battery but also cost of the system. Here we proposed a new approach to design a photovoltaic grid connected system, which can be operated by feeding the surplus power to the utility grid. Again, there is an extra power demand for residential load along with the solar power then this system can also provide an opportunity to consume the power from the grid. If the power consumption by the residential user is zero watts, then the entire generated solar power is fed to theutility grid only. This system provides anti islanding protection to the system. Also, an overview of Indian net metering mechanism for renewable energy sources for power generation systems was carried out in this paper. By the proposed design and control mechanism, the efficiency of the photovoltaic system was increased.</jats:p>