Twenty-Four Hour Solar Irradiance Forecast Based on Neural Networks and Numerical Weather Prediction

C. Cornaro; F. Bucci; M. Pierro; F. Del Frate; S. Peronaci; A. Taravat

doi:10.1115/1.4029452

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Twenty-Four Hour Solar Irradiance Forecast Based on Neural Networks and Numerical Weather Prediction

C. Cornaro ¹, F. Bucci, M. Pierro, F. Del Frate, S. Peronaci and A. Taravat

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C. Cornaro

Department of Enterprise Engineering,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, ItalyCHOSE,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
e-mail: cornaro@uniroma2.it

F. Bucci

Department of Enterprise Engineering,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
e-mail: frabucci@gmail.com

M. Pierro

Department of Enterprise Engineering,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
e-mail: marco.pierro@gmail.com

F. Del Frate

Department of Civil Engineering and
Computer Science Engineering,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
e-mail: fabio.delfrate@disp.uniroma2.it

S. Peronaci

Department of Civil Engineering and
Computer Science Engineering,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
e-mail: simone.peronaci@hotmail.it

A. Taravat

Department of Civil Engineering and
Computer Science Engineering,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
e-mail: art23130@gmail.com

¹Corresponding author.

Contributed by the Solar Energy Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF SOLAR ENERGY ENGINEERING: INCLUDING WIND ENERGY AND BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION. Manuscript received March 28, 2014; final manuscript received December 18, 2014; published online January 8, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Philippe Blanc.

J. Sol. Energy Eng 137(3), 031011 (Jun 01, 2015) (9 pages) Paper No: SOL-14-1104; doi: 10.1115/1.4029452 History: Received March 28, 2014; Revised December 18, 2014; Online January 08, 2015

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In this paper, several models to forecast the hourly solar irradiance with a day in advance using artificial neural network techniques have been developed and analyzed. The forecast irradiance is the one incident on the plane of the modules array of a photovoltaic plant. Pure statistical (ST) models that use only local measured data and model output statistics (MOS) approaches to refine numerical weather prediction data are tested for the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” site. The performance of ST and MOS, together with the persistence model (PM), is compared. The ST models improve the performance of the PM of around 20%. The combination of ST and NWP in the MOS approach gives the best performance, improving the forecast of approximately 39% with respect to the PM.

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Fig. 1

HV of irradiance for two different days. Variable day: January 1, 2009 and not variable day: January 11, 2009.

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PDF of normalized daily variation

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Fig. 3

Sketch of the MLPNN architecture. P1: input vector with R rows. For i-layer, IWi: input weights, LWi: layer weights, bi: bias vector, Si: number of neurons, ai: output vector, and fi: transfer function.

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(a) correlations between measured data and MPL4.1 and MPL4.2 model forecast data (hourly shape forecasting), (b) correlations between measured data and 1MLP and 5NWPMLP

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Improvement 1MLP model (a) and 5NWPMLP model (b) with respect to the PM

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Example of sequence of measured and forecast data for the 1MLP and the 5NWPMLP models

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On the left: MBE values versus forecast Kcs for the ECMWF; on the right: the same for the 5NWPMLP

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5NWPMLP model KS test

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Monthly performance of different forecast models

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Cornaro CC, Bucci FF, Pierro MM, Del Frate FF, Peronaci SS, Taravat AA. Twenty-Four Hour Solar Irradiance Forecast Based on Neural Networks and Numerical Weather Prediction. ASME. J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(3):031011-031011-9. doi:10.1115/1.4029452.

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