Statistical approach for improved wind speed forecasting for wind power production

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 180-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel S. Pearre ◽  
Lukas G. Swan
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Wind Speed Forecasting

Wind Speed Forecasting Based on FNN in Wind Farm

2014 ◽  
Vol 651-653 ◽  
pp. 1117-1122
Author(s):  
Zheng Ning Fu ◽  
Hong Wen Xie
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fuzzy Neural Network ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Wind Speed Forecasting ◽  
Wind Power Plants ◽  
Fuzzy Neural

Wind speed forecasting plays a significant role to the operation of wind power plants and power systems. An accurate forecasting on wind power can effectively relieve or avoid the negative impact of wind power plants on power systems and enhance the competition of wind power plants in electric power market. Based on a fuzzy neural network (FNN), a method of wind speed forecasting is presented in this paper. By mining historical data as the learning stylebook, the fuzzy neural network (FNN) forecasts the wind speed. The simulation results show that this method can improve the accuracy of wind speed forecasting effectively.

scholarly journals Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting Using the Data Processing Approach and the Support Vector Machine Model Optimized by the Improved Cuckoo Search Parameter Estimation Algorithm

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Wang ◽  
Jie Wu ◽  
Jianzhou Wang ◽  
Zhongjin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Parameter Optimization ◽  
Cuckoo Search ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Wind Speed Forecasting ◽  
Comparison Results

Power systems could be at risk when the power-grid collapse accident occurs. As a clean and renewable resource, wind energy plays an increasingly vital role in reducing air pollution and wind power generation becomes an important way to produce electrical power. Therefore, accurate wind power and wind speed forecasting are in need. In this research, a novel short-term wind speed forecasting portfolio has been proposed using the following three procedures: (I) data preprocessing: apart from the regular normalization preprocessing, the data are preprocessed through empirical model decomposition (EMD), which reduces the effect of noise on the wind speed data; (II) artificially intelligent parameter optimization introduction: the unknown parameters in the support vector machine (SVM) model are optimized by the cuckoo search (CS) algorithm; (III) parameter optimization approach modification: an improved parameter optimization approach, called the SDCS model, based on the CS algorithm and the steepest descent (SD) method is proposed. The comparison results show that the simple and effective portfolio EMD-SDCS-SVM produces promising predictions and has better performance than the individual forecasting components, with very small root mean squared errors and mean absolute percentage errors.

Impact of weather regimes on wind power variability in western Europe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo García-Herrera ◽  
Jose M. Garrido-Perez ◽  
Carlos Ordóñez ◽  
David Barriopedro ◽  
Daniel Paredes
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Large Scale Circulation ◽  
Weather Regimes ◽  
The Uk

<p><span><span>We have examined the applicability of a new set of 8 tailored weather regimes (WRs) to reproduce wind power variability in Western Europe. These WRs have been defined using a substantially smaller domain than those traditionally used to derive WRs for the North Atlantic-European sector, in order to maximize the large-scale circulation signal on wind power in the region of study. Wind power is characterized here by wind capacity factors (CFs) from a meteorological reanalysis dataset and from high-resolution data simulated by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. We first show that WRs capture effectively year-round onshore wind power production variability across Europe, especially over northwestern / central Europe and Iberia. Since the influence of the large-scale circulation on wind energy production is regionally dependent, we have then examined the high-resolution CF data interpolated to the location of more than 100 wind farms in two regions with different orography and climatological features, the UK and the Iberian Peninsula. </span></span></p><p><span><span>The use of WRs allows discriminating situations with varied wind speed distributions and power production in both regions. In addition, the use of their monthly frequencies of occurrence as predictors in a multi-linear regression model allows explaining up to two thirds of the month-to-month CF variability for most seasons and sub-regions. These results outperform those previously reported based on Euro-Atlantic modes of atmospheric circulation. The improvement achieved by the spatial adaptation of WRs to a relatively small domain seems to compensate for the reduction in explained variance that may occur when using yearly as compared to monthly or seasonal WR classifications. In addition, our annual WR classification has the advantage that it allows applying a consistent group of WRs to reproduce day-to-day wind speed variability during extreme events regardless of the time of the year. As an illustration, we have applied these WRs to two recent periods such as the wind energy deficit of summer 2018 in the UK and the surplus of March 2018 in Iberia, which can be explained consistently by the different combinations of WRs.</span></span></p>

scholarly journals A Hybrid Model Based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition and Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm for Wind Speed Forecasting

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongxi Qu ◽  
Kequan Zhang ◽  
Jianzhou Wang ◽  
Wenyu Zhang ◽  
Wennan Leng
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Fruit Fly ◽  
Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition ◽  
Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Fruit Fly Optimization ◽  
Wind Speed Forecasting ◽  
Forecasting Models ◽  
Mode Decomposition

As a type of clean and renewable energy, the superiority of wind power has increasingly captured the world’s attention. Reliable and precise wind speed prediction is vital for wind power generation systems. Thus, a more effective and precise prediction model is essentially needed in the field of wind speed forecasting. Most previous forecasting models could adapt to various wind speed series data; however, these models ignored the importance of the data preprocessing and model parameter optimization. In view of its importance, a novel hybrid ensemble learning paradigm is proposed. In this model, the original wind speed data is firstly divided into a finite set of signal components by ensemble empirical mode decomposition, and then each signal is predicted by several artificial intelligence models with optimized parameters by using the fruit fly optimization algorithm and the final prediction values were obtained by reconstructing the refined series. To estimate the forecasting ability of the proposed model, 15 min wind speed data for wind farms in the coastal areas of China was performed to forecast as a case study. The empirical results show that the proposed hybrid model is superior to some existing traditional forecasting models regarding forecast performance.

scholarly journals A Short-Term Ensemble Wind Speed Forecasting System for Wind Power Applications

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 1763-1774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin J. Traiteur ◽  
David J. Callicutt ◽  
Maxwell Smith ◽  
Somnath Baidya Roy
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Bayesian Model Averaging ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Environmental Stability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Wind Speed Forecasting ◽  
Forecasting System

AbstractThis study develops an adaptive, blended forecasting system to provide accurate wind speed forecasts 1 h ahead of time for wind power applications. The system consists of an ensemble of 21 forecasts with different configurations of the Weather Research and Forecasting Single Column Model and persistence, autoregressive, and autoregressive moving-average models. The ensemble is calibrated against observations for a 6-month period (January–June 2006) at a potential wind-farm site in Illinois using the Bayesian model averaging technique. The forecasting system is evaluated against observations for the July 2006–December 2007 period at the same site. The calibrated ensemble forecasts significantly outperform the forecasts from the uncalibrated ensemble as well the time series models under all environmental stability conditions. This forecasting system is computationally more efficient than traditional numerical weather prediction models and can generate a calibrated forecast, including model runs and calibration, in approximately 1 min. Currently, hour-ahead wind speed forecasts are almost exclusively produced using statistical models. However, numerical models have several distinct advantages over statistical models including the potential to provide turbulence forecasts. Hence, there is an urgent need to explore the role of numerical models in short-term wind speed forecasting. This work is a step in that direction and is likely to trigger a debate within the wind speed forecasting community.

scholarly journals Evaluation of ERA5, MERRA-2, COSMO-REA6, NEWA and AROME to simulate wind power production over France

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bénédicte Jourdier
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Electric System ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Diurnal Cycles ◽  
Nwp Model

Abstract. As variable renewable energies are developing, their impacts on the electric system are growing. To anticipate these impacts, prospective studies may use wind power production simulations in the form of 1 h or 30 min time series that are often based on reanalysis wind-speed data. The purpose of this study is to assess how several wind-speed datasets are performing when used to simulate wind-power production at the local scale, when no observation is available to use bias correction methods. The study evaluates two global reanalysis (MERRA-2 from NASA and ERA5 from ECMWF), two high-resolution models (COSMO-REA6 reanalysis from DWD, AROME NWP model from Météo-France) and the New European Wind Atlas mesoscale data. The study is conducted over continental France. In a first part, wind-speed measurements (between 55 and 100 m above ground) at eight locations are directly compared to modelled wind speeds. In a second part, 30 min wind-power productions are simulated for every wind farm in France and compared to two open datasets of observed production published by the distribution and transmission system operators, either at the local scale in terms of annual bias, or aggregated at the regional scale, in terms of bias, correlations and diurnal cycles. ERA5 is very skilled, despite its low resolution compared to the regional models, but it underestimates wind speeds, especially in mountainous areas. AROME and COSMO-REA6 have better skills in complex areas and have generally low biases. MERRA-2 and NEWA have large biases and overestimate wind speeds especially at night. Several problems affecting diurnal cycles are detected in ERA5 and COSMO-REA6.

scholarly journals An Experimental Investigation of FNN Model for Wind Speed Forecasting Using EEMD and CS

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianzhou Wang ◽  
Haiyan Jiang ◽  
Bohui Han ◽  
Qingping Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Power System ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Frequency Noise ◽  
Wind Speed Forecasting ◽  
System A ◽  
Wind Power System ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data

With depletion of traditional energy and increasing environmental problems, wind energy, as an alternative renewable energy, has drawn more and more attention internationally. Meanwhile, wind is plentiful, clean, and environmentally friendly; moreover, its speed is a very important piece of information needed in the operations and planning of the wind power system. Therefore, choosing an effective forecasting model with good performance plays a quite significant role in wind power system. A hybrid CS-EEMD-FNN model is firstly proposed in this paper for multistep ahead prediction of wind speed, in which EEMD is employed as a data-cleaning method that aims to remove the high frequency noise embedded in the wind speed series. CS optimization algorithm is used to select the best parameters in the FNN model. In order to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed hybrid model, three other short-term wind speed forecasting models, namely, FNN model, EEMD-FNN model, and CS-FNN model, are carried out to forecast wind speed using data measured at a typical site in Shandong wind farm, China, over three seasons in 2011. Experimental results demonstrate that the developed hybrid CS-EEMD-FNN model outperforms other models with more accuracy, which is suitable to wind speed forecasting in this area.

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