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Abstract Recently the use of renewable energy resources has been increased widely due to the advantages of having clean energy resources and the reduction in oil, coal and natural gas availability. Wind power, photovoltaic and fuel cell energy resources have been recently the scope for power generation . Renewable energy resources are often combined together to form a hybrid power generation system. This hybrid system increases the stability and reliability of the generated power. However, changes and nonlinearity of environmental conditions reduce the efficiency of the extracted power. So the development of a high accuracy controllers for harvesting maximum power from generation systems becomes necessary. Different traditional techniques and convention methods have been developed to achieve this goal. Early controllers that depend on artificial intelligent, evolutionary and bio -inspired algorithms have been improved to track maximum power. The main objective of this research is to enhance the power transfer capability of grid interfaced hybrid generation system. This hybrid system is a combination of photovoltaic, wind turbine, fuel cell and battery energy systems. The wind, photovoltaic and fuel cell energy systems acts as a primary power system. The battery is added as a backup system to ensure continuous power supply and to take care of the intermittent nature of wind and photovoltaic. In order to get maximum and continuous output power from these renewable energy systems at any instant of time, this thesis proposes |