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Day-ahead to week-ahead solar irradiance prediction using convolutional long short-term memory networks

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  • Cheng, Hsu-Yung
  • Yu, Chih-Chang
  • Lin, Chih-Lung

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In this work, a day-ahead to week-ahead solar irradiance prediction mechanism based on convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model is proposed. The system takes hourly irradiance data from several days previous to the prediction day as the input. Then, features are extracted from the input data using one dimensional convolutional filters. The extracted features from different days are concatenated and serve as the input of the LSTM network. The output of the LSTM is further concatenated with selected original data to emphasize its importance and enhance the prediction results. Afterwards, a fully connected layer is used to produce the final prediction output. The proposed framework can be trained using a relatively small amount of training data within the duration of only two months. Therefore, it has the advantage of being applicable in the initial deployment phase when the amount of training data is limited. The proposed system has been validated using a highly challenging dataset collected in Taiwan with tropical and subtropical marine island climate.

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  • Cheng, Hsu-Yung & Yu, Chih-Chang & Lin, Chih-Lung, 2021. "Day-ahead to week-ahead solar irradiance prediction using convolutional long short-term memory networks," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 2300-2308.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:179:y:2021:i:c:p:2300-2308
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.08.038
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