A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Cost Photovoltaic Power Prediction Based on Publicly Available Weather Reports

Autor: Nailya Maitanova, Jan-Simon Telle, Benedikt Hanke, Matthias Grottke, Thomas Schmidt, Karsten von Maydell, Carsten Agert
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 13, Iss 3, p 735 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en13030735
Popis: A fully automated transferable predictive approach was developed to predict photovoltaic (PV) power output for a forecasting horizon of 24 h. The prediction of PV power output was made with the help of a long short-term memory machine learning algorithm. The main challenge of the approach was using (1) publicly available weather reports without solar irradiance values and (2) measured PV power without any technical information about the PV system. Using this input data, the developed model can predict the power output of the investigated PV systems with adequate accuracy. The lowest seasonal mean absolute scaled error of the prediction was reached by maximum size of the training set. Transferability of the developed approach was proven by making predictions of the PV power for warm and cold periods and for two different PV systems located in Oldenburg and Munich, Germany. The PV power prediction made with publicly available weather data was compared to the predictions made with fee-based solar irradiance data. The usage of the solar irradiance data led to more accurate predictions even with a much smaller training set. Although the model with publicly available weather data needed greater training sets, it could still make adequate predictions.
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