Recent advances in intra-hour solar forecasting: A review of ground-based sky image methods

F Lin, Y Zhang, J Wang - International Journal of Forecasting, 2023 - Elsevier
As the penetration of solar energy generation into power systems keeps rising, intra-hour
solar forecasting (IHSF) is becoming increasingly important for the secure and economical …

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 …

Day-ahead forecasting of solar power output from photovoltaic plants in the American Southwest

DP Larson, L Nonnenmacher, CFM Coimbra - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
A forecasting method for hourly-averaged, day-ahead power output (PO) from photovoltaic
(PV) power plants based on least-squares optimization of Numerical Weather Prediction …

Short-term solar power forecast with deep learning: Exploring optimal input and output configuration

Y Sun, V Venugopal, AR Brandt - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The volatility of cloud movement introduces significant uncertainty in short-term solar power
forecasting, which can complicate the operation of modern power systems. This work …

Solar irradiance resource and forecasting: a comprehensive review

DS Kumar, GM Yagli, M Kashyap… - IET Renewable Power …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the increase in demand for energy, penetration of alternative sources of energy in the
power grid has increased. Photovoltaic (PV) energy is the most common and popular form of …

A suite of metrics for assessing the performance of solar power forecasting

J Zhang, A Florita, BM Hodge, S Lu, HF Hamann… - Solar Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Forecasting solar energy generation is a challenging task because of the variety of solar
power systems and weather regimes encountered. Inaccurate forecasts can result in …

Model predictive control for distributed microgrid battery energy storage systems

T Morstyn, B Hredzak, RP Aguilera… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief proposes a new convex model predictive control (MPC) strategy for dynamic
optimal power flow between battery energy storage (ES) systems distributed in an ac …

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 …

Benefits of solar forecasting for energy imbalance markets

A Kaur, L Nonnenmacher, HTC Pedro, CFM Coimbra - Renewable energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Short term electricity trading to balance generation and demand provides an economic
opportunity to integrate larger shares of variable renewable energy sources in the power …

[HTML][HTML] An intelligent hybrid wavelet-adversarial deep model for accurate prediction of solar power generation

F Meng, Q Zou, Z Zhang, B Wang, H Ma, HM Abdullah… - Energy Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel intelligent hybrid model is proposed in this paper for accurate prediction and
modeling of solar power plants using the wavelet transform package (WTP) and generative …