Journal Article

·2016

A short-term spatio-temporal approach for Photovoltaic power forecasting

Akın Taşçıkaraoğlu YTU , Borhan M. Sanandaji , Gianfranco Chicco , Valeria Cocina , Filippo Spertino YTU , Ozan Erdinç YTU , Nikolaos G. Paterakis YTU , João P. S. Catalào

Abstract

This paper presents a Photovoltaic (PV) power conversion model and a forecasting approach which uses spatial dependency of variables along with their temporal information. The power produced by a PV plant is forecasted by a PV conversion model using the predictions of three weather variables, namely, irradiance on the tilted plane, ambient temperature, and wind speed. The predictions are accomplished using a spatio-temporal algorithm that exploits the sparsity of correlations between time series data of different meteorological stations in the same region. The performances of the forecasting algorithm as well as the PV conversion model are investigated using real data recorded at various locations in Italy. The comparisons with various benchmark methods show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches over short-term forecasts.

Keywords

Photovoltaic system Benchmark (surveying) Term (time) Dependency (UML) Wind speed Computer science Exploit Irradiance Meteorology Solar irradiance Data modeling Time series Data mining Environmental science Artificial intelligence Engineering Machine learning Geography Cartography

Subject Areas

Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics ·Artificial Intelligence ·Physical Sciences
Energy Load and Power Forecasting ·Electrical and Electronic Engineering ·Physical Sciences
Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques ·Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ·Physical Sciences

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