Solar Power Forecasting Based on Ensemble Learning Methods

Abstract

Alternative energy sources are becoming more and more common around the world. In order to reduce environmental pollution and CO 2 emissions, in addition to being an ideal solution to overcome the energy crisis. In this context, power energy stands out, as it is the most abundant and most widely available natural resource on the entire planet. Due to the high level of uncertainty of the factors that directly interfere in the generation of solar power, such as temperature and solar radiation, make predictions of solar power with high precision is a challenge. Thus, the objective of this article is to develop a forecasting model, through time series, that makes it possible to predict the production of power energy, using a database collected in a photovoltaic plant in Uruguay. For the development of the proposal, models (base-learners), pre-processing techniques and models (meta-learners) used in the Stacking-Ensemble Learnig (STACK) method were used, which were compared using the measurements of performance Relative Root Mean Square Error (RRMSE), Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (sMAPE) and Determination Coefficient (R 2 ) in addition to statistical tests. In the end, it can be concluded that the combination Correlation Matrix (CORR) and Language Model (LM), from Layer-0 obtained the best results, in the three performance measures and the combination of models (base-learners) and pre-processing techniques (Layer-0) presented the best results when compared to Layer-1, obtaining satisfactory values in all performance measures.

Publication
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

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