Nowadays, there has been an increasing concern and demand for renewable energy. The top contender for which is solar energy—it is cheap, available everywhere and readily convertible to useful electrical energy by photovoltaic panels. It has been estimated that for meeting the world’s power requirement, an area of the size of Spain is required to be covered completely with solar panels. Thus, in order to efficiently utilize this resource, various methods like MPPT, etc., are defined. By utilizing maximum power point tracking, we can utilize the energy that would be wasted from the solar panel by increasing or decreasing the duty cycle. For that, an efficient and stable power electronics converter is required. In this paper, the designing and testing of such a boost converter are discussed. © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.