Accurate nowcasting of cloud cover at solar photovoltaic plants using geostationary satellite images

Abstract Accurate nowcasting for cloud fraction is still intractable challenge for stable solar photovoltaic electricity generation. By combining continuous radiance images measured by geostationary satellite and an advanced recurrent neural network, we develop a nowcasting algorithm for predicting...

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Main Authors: Pan Xia, Lu Zhang, Min Min, Jun Li, Yun Wang, Yu Yu, Shengjie Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44666-1