[HTML][HTML] Advances in solar forecasting: Computer vision with deep learning

Q Paletta, G Terrén-Serrano, Y Nie, B Li… - Advances in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy forecasting is crucial for integrating variable energy sources into the grid.
It allows power systems to address the intermittency of the energy supply at different …

Open-source sky image datasets for solar forecasting with deep learning: A comprehensive survey

Y Nie, X Li, Q Paletta, M Aragon, A Scott… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sky image-based solar forecasting using deep learning has been recognized as a
promising approach in reducing the uncertainty of solar power generation. However, a major …

Benchmarking of solar irradiance nowcast performance derived from all-sky imagers

SA Logothetis, V Salamalikis, S Wilbert, J Remund… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Fluctuations of the incoming solar irradiance impact the power generation from photovoltaic
and concentrating solar thermal power plants. Accurate solar nowcasting becomes …

Assessment of new solar radiation nowcasting methods based on sky-camera and satellite imagery

FJ Rodríguez-Benítez, M López-Cuesta… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This work proposes and evaluates methods for extending the forecasting horizon of all-sky
imager (ASI)-based solar radiation nowcasts and estimating the uncertainty of these …

A physical model with meteorological forecasting for hourly rooftop photovoltaic power prediction

Y Zhi, T Sun, X Yang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate photovoltaic power forecasting provides essential information for the flexible
control of building energy systems. This paper proposes a physical model with …

[HTML][HTML] Applying self-supervised learning for semantic cloud segmentation of all-sky images

Y Fabel, B Nouri, S Wilbert, N Blum… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
Semantic segmentation of ground-based all-sky images (ASIs) can provide high-resolution
cloud coverage information of distinct cloud types, applicable for meteorology-, climatology …

A hybrid solar irradiance nowcasting approach: Combining all sky imager systems and persistence irradiance models for increased accuracy

B Nouri, N Blum, S Wilbert, LF Zarzalejo - Solar Rrl, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The share of distributed solar power generation is continuously growing. This increase,
combined with the intermittent nature of the solar resource creates new challenges for all …

[HTML][HTML] ECLIPSE: Envisioning cloud induced perturbations in solar energy

Q Paletta, A Hu, G Arbod, J Lasenby - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Efficient integration of solar energy into the electricity mix depends on a reliable anticipation
of its intermittency. A promising approach to forecasting the temporal variability of solar …

SPIN: Simplifying Polar Invariance for Neural networks Application to vision-based irradiance forecasting

Q Paletta, A Hu, G Arbod, P Blanc… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Translational invariance induced by pooling operations is an inherent property of
convolutional neural networks, which facilitates numerous computer vision tasks such as …

Open-source ground-based sky image datasets for very short-term solar forecasting, cloud analysis and modeling: A comprehensive survey

Y Nie, X Li, Q Paletta, M Aragon, A Scott… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Sky-image-based solar forecasting using deep learning has been recognized as a
promising approach in reducing the uncertainty in solar power generation. However, one of …