Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model

With the rapid growth of wind power installed capacity in recent years, the distribution of wind farms will be relatively dense, and there are usually multiple wind farms in the same area. However, due to the complex correlations and dependencies among these wind farms, traditional forecasting model...

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Main Authors: Kai Qu, Gangquan Si, Zihan Shan, XiangGuang Kong, Xin Yang
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-08-01
Series:Energy Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722004310
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Gangquan Si
Zihan Shan
XiangGuang Kong
Xin Yang
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Zihan Shan
XiangGuang Kong
Xin Yang
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description With the rapid growth of wind power installed capacity in recent years, the distribution of wind farms will be relatively dense, and there are usually multiple wind farms in the same area. However, due to the complex correlations and dependencies among these wind farms, traditional forecasting models for individual wind power are difficult to apply. Meanwhile, the accurate forecasting of power output of multiple wind farms is very important to the evaluation results of the renewable energy consumption capacity of the grid, and this problem has received extensive attention from many scholars. To improve the accuracy of forecasting, we apply the Transformer model from natural language processing (NLP) to the field of wind power forecasting. The proposed model is capable of capturing longer sequence internal dependencies, as well as capturing the key information of wind data in a comprehensive and multifaceted way. By comparing with the comparison method, case studies show that the model is not only able to accurately extract different levels of correlation between multiple wind farms, but also to give accurate wind power forecasting results.
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spelling doaj.art-20229dcc143742478462811264cac4b92022-12-22T03:16:29ZengElsevierEnergy Reports2352-48472022-08-018483490Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer modelKai Qu0Gangquan Si1Zihan Shan2XiangGuang Kong3Xin Yang4State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Smart Grid, School of Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xi’an, ChinaCorresponding author.; State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Smart Grid, School of Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xi’an, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Smart Grid, School of Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xi’an, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Smart Grid, School of Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xi’an, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Smart Grid, School of Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xi’an, ChinaWith the rapid growth of wind power installed capacity in recent years, the distribution of wind farms will be relatively dense, and there are usually multiple wind farms in the same area. However, due to the complex correlations and dependencies among these wind farms, traditional forecasting models for individual wind power are difficult to apply. Meanwhile, the accurate forecasting of power output of multiple wind farms is very important to the evaluation results of the renewable energy consumption capacity of the grid, and this problem has received extensive attention from many scholars. To improve the accuracy of forecasting, we apply the Transformer model from natural language processing (NLP) to the field of wind power forecasting. The proposed model is capable of capturing longer sequence internal dependencies, as well as capturing the key information of wind data in a comprehensive and multifaceted way. By comparing with the comparison method, case studies show that the model is not only able to accurately extract different levels of correlation between multiple wind farms, but also to give accurate wind power forecasting results.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722004310Short-term forecastingMultiple wind farmsTransformerSelf-attention
spellingShingle Kai Qu
Gangquan Si
Zihan Shan
XiangGuang Kong
Xin Yang
Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model
Energy Reports
Short-term forecasting
Multiple wind farms
Transformer
Self-attention
title Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model
title_full Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model
title_fullStr Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model
title_full_unstemmed Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model
title_short Short-term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model
title_sort short term forecasting for multiple wind farms based on transformer model
topic Short-term forecasting
Multiple wind farms
Transformer
Self-attention
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722004310
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