Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 280, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115875
Keywords
Solar generation forecasting; Deep learning; Whole Sky image; Convolutional LSTM
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- UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, UNSW, Sydney
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [DP170103427, DP180103217]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [72071100]
- Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund [2019A1515111173]
- Dept. of Education of Guangdong Province, Young Talent Program [2018KQNCX223]
- High-level University Fund [G02236002]
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With the ever-increased penetration of solar energy in the power grid, solar photovoltaic forecasting has become an indispensable aspect in maintaining power system stability and economic operation. At the operating stage, the forecasting accuracy of renewables has a direct influence on energy scheduling and dispatching. In this paper, we propose a series of novel approaches based on deep whole-sky-image learning architectures for very short-term solar photovoltaic generation forecasting, of which the lookahead windows concern the scales from 4 to 20 min. In particular, multiple deep learning models with the integration of both static sky image units and dynamic sky image stream are explicitly investigated. Extensive numerical studies on various models are carried out, through which the experimental results show that the proposed hybrid static image forecaster provides superior performance as compared to the benchmarking methods (i.e. the ones without sky images), with up to 8.3% improvement in general, and up to 32.8% improvement in the cases of ramp events. In addition, case studies at multiple time scales reveal that sky-image-based models can be more robust to the ramp events in solar photovoltaic generation.
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