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The main purpose of this paper is to generate eco-friendly electricity using MFC technology and then increase the same energy to a usable form for those who have not connected to a regular electricity grid. Therefore, power electronic converters are used to boost the energy from MFC because of the added advantages of their ability to store the harvested energy. These converters are diode-based which is generally used to boost the voltage, and normally these harvesters departed a lot from the poor efficiency due to diode losses. MOSFETs can be used to reduce the loss of these diodes because MOSFET has lower conduction loss; an isolated gate signal is required for the MOSFET, which tends to be floating after replacement. This paper presents harvesting energy from MFC and designing a boost converter. Design and implementation of the boost converter using MATLAB/SIMULINK. A simple boost converter has been fabricated using easily available materials to provide continuous power. Simulation and hardware results are presented to verify the functionality of the converter.