Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en9010011
Keywords
photovoltaic power prediction; wavelet decomposition; artificial neural network; theoretical solar irradiance; signal reconstruction
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Funding
- Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project [YETP0714]
- Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources [LAPS14006]
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The power prediction for photovoltaic (PV) power plants has significant importance for their grid connection. Due to PV power's periodicity and non-stationary characteristics, traditional power prediction methods based on linear or time series models are no longer applicable. This paper presents a method combining the advantages of the wavelet decomposition (WD) and artificial neural network (ANN) to solve this problem. With the ability of ANN to address nonlinear relationships, theoretical solar irradiance and meteorological variables are chosen as the input of the hybrid model based on WD and ANN. The output power of the PV plant is decomposed using WD to separated useful information from disturbances. The ANNs are used to build the models of the decomposed PV output power. Finally, the outputs of the ANN models are reconstructed into the forecasted PV plant power. The presented method is compared with the traditional forecasting method based on ANN. The results shows that the method described in this paper needs less calculation time and has better forecasting precision.
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