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Abstract : With increased interest towards the renewable power generation resources due to its profound concerns towards the environmental aspects, the Wind, Photovoltaic (PV), Geo thermal and Tidal based systems are more prominent. The uncertainty nature of power generation is dominating the penetration of these sources into the existing grid. With solar PV, the dependence of irradiance on geography and temperature conditions of the location, the power tracking necessitates certain intelligence-based control techniques for power control. In this regard, this paper proposes a Fuzzy logic-based control system for effective tracking to facilitate the grid integration of installed PV system together with an energy storage system using cascaded multilevel inverters. In order to validate the performance of proposed method, the equivalent models were simulated in MATLAB/Simulink and its performance was tested under various operating conditions as per the IEEE 519 standard.