Forecasting Photovoltaic Power Production using a Deep Learning Sequence to Sequence Model with Attention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02775v2
• Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:23:29 GMT
• Title: Forecasting Photovoltaic Power Production using a Deep Learning Sequence to Sequence Model with Attention
• Authors: Elizaveta Kharlova, Daniel May, Petr Musilek (University of Alberta)
• Abstract summary: We propose a supervised deep learning model for end-to-end forecasting of PV power production. The proposed model is based on two seminal concepts that led to significant performance improvements in other sequence-related fields. The results show that the new design performs at or above the current state of the art of PV power forecasting.
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• Abstract: Rising penetration levels of (residential) photovoltaic (PV) power as distributed energy resource pose a number of challenges to the electricity infrastructure. High quality, general tools to provide accurate forecasts of power production are urgently needed. In this article, we propose a supervised deep learning model for end-to-end forecasting of PV power production. The proposed model is based on two seminal concepts that led to significant performance improvements of deep learning approaches in other sequence-related fields, but not yet in the area of time series prediction: the sequence to sequence architecture and attention mechanism as a context generator. The proposed model leverages numerical weather predictions and high-resolution historical measurements to forecast a binned probability distribution over the prognostic time intervals, rather than the expected values of the prognostic variable. This design offers significant performance improvements compared to common baseline approaches, such as fully connected neural networks and one-block long short-term memory architectures. Using normalized root mean square error based forecast skill score as a performance indicator, the proposed approach is compared to other models. The results show that the new design performs at or above the current state of the art of PV power forecasting.

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