基于Elman神经网络的短期风电功率预测

为提高风电场输出功率预测精度,提出一种动态基于神经网络的功率预测方法。根据实际运行的风电场相关风速、相关风向和风电功率的历史数据,建立了基于Elman神经元网络的短期风电功率预测模型。运用多层Elman神经网络模型对西北某风电场实际1h和24h的风电输出功率预测,与BP神经网络模型对比,经仿真分析证明前者具有预测精度高的特点,三隐含层Elman神经网络模型预测效果最佳。这表明利用Elman回归神经网络建模对风电功率进行预测是可行的,能有效提高功率预测精度。     

Wind speed forecasting based on the hybrid ensemble empirical mode decomposition and GA-BP neural network method

Wind speed is the major factor that affects the wind generation, and in turn the forecasting accuracy of wind speed is the key to wind power prediction. In this paper, a wind speed forecasting method based on improved empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and GA-BP neural network is proposed. EMD has been applied extensively for analyzing nonlinear stochastic signals. Ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) is an improved method of EMD, which can effectively handle the mode-mixing problem and decompose the original data into more stationary signals with different frequencies. Each signal is taken as an input data to the GA-BP neural network model. The final forecasted wind speed data is obtained by aggregating the predicted data of individual signals. Cases study of a wind farm in Inner Mongolia, China, shows that the proposed hybrid method is much more accurate than the traditional GA-BP forecasting approach and GA-BP with EMD and wavelet neural network method. By the sensitivity analysis of parameters, it can be seen that appropriate settings on parameters can improve the forecasting result. The simulation with MATLAB shows that the proposed method can improve the forecasting accuracy and computational efficiency, which make it suitable for on-line ultra-short term (10 min) and short term (1 h) wind speed forecasting.     

Wind power forecast using neural networks: Tuning with optimization techniques and error analysis

The increased integration of wind power into the power system implies many challenges to the network operators, mainly due to the hard to predict and variability of wind power generation. Thus, an accurate wind power forecast is imperative for systems operators, aiming at an efficient and economical wind power operation and integration into the power system. This work addresses the issue of forecasting short‐term wind speed and wind power for 1 hour ahead, combining artificial neural networks (ANNs) with optimization techniques on real historical wind speed and wind power data. Levenberg‐Marquardt (LM) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are used as training algorithms to update the weights and bias of the ANN applied to wind speed predictions. The forecasting performance produced by the proposed models are compared with each other, as well as with the benchmark persistence model. Test results show higher performance for ANN‐LM wind speed forecasting model, outperforming both ANN‐PSO and persistence. The application of ANN‐LM to wind power forecast revealed also a good performance, with an average improvement of 2.8% in relation to persistence. An innovative analysis of mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) behaviour in time and in typical days is finally offered in the paper.     

A simulated-based neural network algorithm for forecasting electrical energy consumption in Iran

This study presents an integrated algorithm for forecasting monthly electrical energy consumption based on artificial neural network (ANN), computer simulation and design of experiments using stochastic procedures. First, an ANN approach is illustrated based on supervised multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network for the electrical consumption forecasting. The chosen model, therefore, can be compared to that of estimated by time series model. Computer simulation is developed to generate random variables for monthly electricity consumption. This is achieved to foresee the effects of probabilistic distribution on monthly electricity consumption. The simulated-based ANN model is then developed. Therefore, there are four treatments to be considered in analysis of variance (ANOVA), which are actual data, time series, ANN and simulated-based ANN. Furthermore, ANOVA is used to test the null hypothesis of the above four alternatives being statistically equal. If the null hypothesis is accepted, then the lowest mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) value is used to select the best model, otherwise the Duncan method (DMRT) of paired comparison is used to select the optimum model which could be time series, ANN or simulated-based ANN. In case of ties the lowest MAPE value is considered as the benchmark. The integrated algorithm has several unique features. First, it is flexible and identifies the best model based on the results of ANOVA and MAPE, whereas previous studies consider the best fitted ANN model based on MAPE or relative error results. Second, the proposed algorithm may identify conventional time series as the best model for future electricity consumption forecasting because of its dynamic structure, whereas previous studies assume that ANN always provide the best solutions and estimation. To show the applicability and superiority of the proposed algorithm, the monthly electricity consumption in Iran from March 1994 to February 2005 (131 months) is used and applied to the proposed algorithm.     

测风数据间隔对风速预测精度影响的研究

风速预测对风电场控制和电网调度具有十分重要的意义。文章以不同时间间隔的测风数据为基础,采用时间序列法和人工神经网络法对风速进行预测,通过比较风速预测绝对平均误差,说明时间间隔较短时,采用BP神经网络预测精度较高;当时间间隔增大时,采用时间序列法预测精度较高;时间间隔过大,即风速数据太少时,两种预测方法误差都较大,须谨慎使用。该研究结果对风电机组控制系统的设计以及电网调度计划的制定具有参考价值。     

The application of artificial neural networks to mapping of wind speed profile for energy application in Nigeria

Modelling and prediction of wind speed are essential prerequisites in the sitting and sizing of wind power applications. The profile of wind speed in Nigeria is modelled using artificial neural network (ANN). The ANN model consists of 3-layered, feed-forward, back-propagation network with different configurations, designed using the Neural Toolbox for MATLAB. The monthly mean daily wind speed data monitored at 10 m above ground level for a period of 20 years (1983–2003) for 28 ground stations operated by the Nigeria Meteorological Services (NIMET) were used as training (18 stations) and testing (10 stations) dataset. The geographical parameters (latitude, longitude and altitude) and the month of the year were used as input data, while the monthly mean wind speed was used as the output of the network. The optimum network architecture with minimum Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 8.9% and correlation coefficient (r) between the predicted and the measured wind speed values of 0.9380 was obtained. The predicted monthly wind speed ranged from 0.9–13.1 m/s with an annual mean of 4.7 m/s. The model predicted wind speed values are given in the form of monthly maps, which can be easily used for assessment of wind energy potential for different locations within Nigeria.     

Application of artificial neural networks for the wind speed prediction of target station using reference stations data

In this study, artificial neural networks (ANNs) were applied to predict the mean monthly wind speed of any target station using the mean monthly wind speeds of neighboring stations which are indicated as reference stations. Hourly wind speed data, collected by the Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS) at 8 measuring stations located in the eastern Mediterranean region of Turkey were used. The long-term wind data, containing hourly wind speeds, directions and related information, cover the period between 1992 and 2001. These data were divided into two sections. According to the correlation coefficients, reference and target stations were defined. The mean monthly wind speeds of reference stations were used and also corresponding months were specified in the input layer of the network. On the other hand, the mean monthly wind speed of the target station was utilized in the output layer of the network. Resilient propagation (RP) learning algorithm was applied in the present simulation. The hidden layers and output layer of the network consist of logistic sigmoid transfer function (logsig) and linear transfer function (purelin) as an activation function. Finally, the values determined by ANN model were compared with the actual data. The maximum mean absolute percentage error was found to be 14.13% for Antakya meteorological station and the best result was found to be 4.49% for Mersin meteorological station.     

基于神经网络和改进相似日的光伏电站功率预测

为提高光伏电站功率预测的准确率,提出了一种基于SOM神经网络与熵权法优化关联系数的相似日预测模型,利用麻城市某100MW光伏电站的气温、相对湿度、风速及国家气象站日照时数、总云量、低云量等气象要素,采用SOM神经网络推算出预测日的三个相似日,再利用熵权法优化关联系数确定三个相似日的系数求出相似日分辨率为15min的瞬时功率,作为BP神经网络输入对光伏电站进行短期功率预测,并通过与其他四种预测模型的对比分析评估其性能。结果表明,模型的月相对均方根误差、月平均绝对百分比误差分别为5.88%、3.03%,与效果最佳的原理法模型误差接近;基于熵权法优化的关联系数和云量数据的加入对预测准确率有较大提高;模型预测准确率较高,抗扰动能力较强,可集合至本部门开发的预测系统运用到实际中。     

人工神经网络模拟生物膜滴滤塔废气处理过程

在生物滴滤塔处理有机废气过程中，参数非线性度大，其处理过程适合用人工神经网络(ANN)模拟。通过建立神经网络模拟生物滴滤塔处理有机废气的过程，对遗传算法的改进能够提高其收敛速度，并采用改进遗传算法(MGA)与LMBP算法相结合(MGA—LMBP)，利用已有的实验数据样本训练神经网络，取得了较好的效果。     

基于MMAS BP算法的短期风速非线性组合预测模型

为提高风电场短期风速的预测精度,引入一种基于改进蚁群算法优化神经网络的非线性组合预测方法,按误差平方和最小原则对所建灰色GM(1,1)模型、BP网络和RBF网络三种单一预测数据进行非线性组合,并将其结果作为最终预测值。仿真结果表明,该方法的平均绝对误差及均方误差分别为17.76%和3.68%,均小于单一模型、线性组合模型及神经网络组合模型的预测结果,提高了网络的泛化能力,降低了预测风险,为风电场风速预测提供了一种新途径。     

基于人工神经网络模型的风速预测

利用在达坂城风电场30m轮毂高处的1min实测风速数据,采用人工神经网络模型ANN对未来短时间风速进行预报。通过对风速反复训练与检测来选择一组合适的模型参数,并对模型进行了误差分析。研究结果表明,使用BP神经网络对未来风速进行短时间预测能够达到较好的效果,误差较ARMA模型更精确,但是对于突变信息的处理能力仍然有限。     

应用小波-人工神经网络组合模型研究电力负荷预报

针对负荷时间序列的非线性和多时间尺度特性．提出了将小波分析与人工神经网络相结合进行负荷预报的方法——小波-人工神经网络组合模型。该模型吸取了小波分析的多分辨功能和人工神经网络的非线性逼近能力。以月、日平均负荷预报为例对模型进行验证．结果表明：该模型的拟合、检验精度较高。     

基于小波变换与Elman神经网络的短期风速组合预测

风速的准确预测对风电场发电系统的经济和安全运行有着重要的作用。为了克服风速随机性强的缺点,提高短期风速预测的精度,提出了一种将小波变换与Elman神经网络相结合的短期风速组合预测模型。该模型由小波预处理模块和神经网络预测模块组成。首先利用小波预处理模块将风速序列作多尺度分解,重构得到不同频段的子序列,然后利用Elman神经网络模块分别对其训练和预测。实际风速预测结果表明,与单一的Elman和ARMA法相比,该组合预测模型的预测精度有较大的改善,可以用于风电场短期风速的预测。     

Bayesian adaptive combination of short-term wind speed forecasts from neural network models

Short-term wind speed forecasting is of great importance for wind farm operations and the integration of wind energy into the power grid system. Adaptive and reliable methods and techniques of wind speed forecasts are urgently needed in view of the stochastic nature of wind resource varying from time to time and from site to site. This paper presents a robust two-step methodology for accurate wind speed forecasting based on Bayesian combination algorithm, and three neural network models, namely, adaptive linear element network (ADALINE), backpropagation (BP) network, and radial basis function (RBF) network. The hourly average wind speed data from two North Dakota sites are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The results indicate that, while the performances of the neural networks are not consistent in forecasting 1-h-ahead wind speed for the two sites or under different evaluation metrics, the Bayesian combination method can always provide adaptive, reliable and comparatively accurate forecast results. The proposed methodology provides a unified approach to tackle the challenging model selection issue in wind speed forecasting.     

Wind speed forecast model for wind farm based on a hybrid machine learning algorithm

This paper presents a new strategy for wind speed forecasting based on a hybrid machine learning algorithm, composed of a data filtering technique based on wavelet transform (WT) and a soft computing model based on the fuzzy ARTMAP (FA) network. The prediction capability of the proposed hybrid WT+FA model is demonstrated by an extensive comparison with some other existing wind speed forecasting methods. The results show a significant improvement in forecasting error through the application of a proposed hybrid WT+FA model. The proposed wind speed forecasting strategy is applied to real data acquired from the North Cape wind farm located in PEI, Canada.     

Forecasting method of monthly wind power generation based on climate model and long short-term memory neural network

Predicting wind power generation over the medium and long term is helpful for dispatching departments, as it aids in constructing generation plans and electricity market transactions. This study presents a monthly wind power generation forecasting method based on a climate model and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network. A nonlinear mapping model is established between the meteorological elements and wind power monthly utilization hours. After considering the meteorological data (as predicted for the future) and new installed capacity planning, the monthly wind power generation forecast results are output. A case study shows the effectiveness of the prediction method.     

Mapping of solar energy potential in Indonesia using artificial neural network and geographical information system

The first objective of this study is to determine the theoretical potential of solar irradiation in Indonesia by using artificial neural networks (ANNs) method. The second objective is to visualize the solar irradiation by province as solar map for the entire of Indonesia. The geographical and meteorological data of 25 locations that were obtained from NASA database are used for training the neural networks and the data from 5 locations were used for testing the estimated values. The testing data were not used in the training of the network in order to give an indication of the performance of the system at unknown locations. In this study, the multi layer perceptron ANNs model, with 9 inputs variables i.e. average temperature, average relative humidity, average sunshine duration, average wind speed, average precipitation, longitude, latitude, latitude, and month of the year were proposed to estimate the monthly solar irradiation as the output. Statistical error analysis in terms of mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) was conducted for testing data to evaluate the performance of ANN model. The best result of MAPE was found to be 3.4% when 9 neurons were set up in the hidden layer. As developing country and wide islands area, Indonesia has the limitation on the number of meteorological station to record the solar irradiation availability; this study shows the ANN method can be an alternative option to estimate solar irradiation data. Monthly solar mapping by province for the entire of Indonesia are developed in GIS environment by putting the location and solar irradiation value in polygon format. Solar irradiation map can provide useful information about the profile of solar energy resource as the input for the solar energy system implementation.     

Hybrid boosting algorithms and artificial neural network for wind speed prediction

Energy sources are an important foundation for national economic growth. The future of energy sources depend on the energy controls. The reserves of fossil energy have declined significantly, and environmental pollution has increased dramatically due to excessive fossil fuel consumption. At this point, wind energy can be used as one of the key source of renewable energy. It has a remarkable importance among the low-carbon energy technologies. The primary aim of wind energy production is to reduce dependence on fossil fuels that affect environment adversely. Therefore, wind energy is analyzed to develop new energy resources. The main issue related to evaluation of the wind energy potential is wind speed prediction. Due to the high volatile and irregular nature of wind speed, wind speed prediction is difficult. To cope with complex data structure, this study presents the development of extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), and artificial neural network (ANN) within particle swarm optimization (PSO) parameter optimization for hourly wind speed prediction. To compare the proposed hybrid methods, various performance measures, the Pearson's test, and the Taylor diagram are used. The results showed that proposed hybrid methods provide reasonable prediction results for wind speed prediction.     

Hour-ahead wind power and speed forecasting using simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) algorithm and neural network with fuzzy inputs

Wind energy is currently one of the types of renewable energy with a large generation capacity. However, since the operation of wind power generation is challenging due to its intermittent characteristics, forecasting wind power generation efficiently is essential for economic operation. This paper proposes a new method of wind power and speed forecasting using a multi-layer feed-forward neural network (MFNN) to develop forecasting in time-scales that can vary from a few minutes to an hour. Inputs for the MFNN are modeled by fuzzy numbers because the measurement facilities provide maximum, average and minimum values. Then simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) algorithm is employed to train the MFNN. Real wind power generation and wind speed data measured at a wind farm are used for simulation. Comparative studies between the proposed method and traditional methods are shown.     

Forecasting aggregated wind power production of multiple wind farms using hybrid wavelet‐PSO‐NNs

This paper describes the problem of short‐term wind power production forecasting based on meteorological information. Aggregated wind power forecasts are produced for multiple wind farms using a hybrid intelligent algorithm that uses a data filtering technique based on wavelet transform (WT) and a soft computing model (SCM) based on neural network (NN), which is optimized by using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid intelligent WT + NNPSO model, which takes into account the interactions of wind power, wind speed, wind direction, and temperature in the forecast process, the real data of wind farms located in the southern Alberta, Canada, are used to train and test the proposed model. The test results produced by the proposed hybrid WT + NNPSO model are compared with other SCMs as well as the benchmark persistence method. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed technique is capable of performing effectively with the variability and intermittency of wind power generation series in order to produce accurate wind power forecasts. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.