Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 629-639Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2021.3123476
Keywords
Satellites; Clouds; Predictive models; Forecasting; Weather forecasting; Data models; Computational modeling; Cloud motion; deep learning; photovoltaic forecasting; regions of interest; satellite images
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52077062]
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This study proposes an end-to-end short-term forecasting model that uses satellite images to predict solar power generation by learning cloud motion characteristics. With its optimized deep learning architecture, the model outperforms other methods in prediction results and learning capability, making it suitable for PV plants in different areas.
Developing solar power generation technology is an efficient approach to relieving the global environmental crisis. However, solar energy is an energy source with strong uncertainty, which restricts large-scale photovoltaic (PV) applications until accurate solar energy predictions can be achieved. PV power forecasting methods have been widely researched based on existing predictions of satellite-derived solar irradiance, whereas modeling cloud motion directly from satellite images is still a tough task. In this study, an end-to-end short-term forecasting model is proposed to take satellite images as inputs, and it can learn the cloud motion characteristics from stacked optical flow maps. In order to reduce the huge size of measurements, static regions of interest (ROIs) are scoped based on historical cloud velocities. With its well-designed deep learning architecture, the proposed model can output multi-step-ahead prediction results sequentially by shifting receptive attention to dynamic ROIs. According to comparisons with related studies, the proposed model outperforms persistence and derived methods, and enhances its learning capability relative to conventional learning models via the novel architecture. The model can be applied to PV plants or arrays in different areas, suitable for forecast horizons within three hours.
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