APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES AND STATISTICAL ENSEMBLING TO FORECAST POWER OUTPUT OF A WIND ENERGY FACILITY
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1. A method of forecasting power output of a wind energy facility, comprising:
- ingesting one or more data sets representative of meteorological forecasts for an area in which a wind energy facility is located from at least one of multiple numerical predictive weather models;
extracting weather variables from the one or more data sets having an expected relationship to a power output production generated by the wind energy facility;
ingesting an actual power output data that is representative of historical power output of the wind energy facility for a specified period of time;
applying, within a computing environment comprised of at least one computer processor configured to model a specific power output forecast for a wind energy facility within a plurality of data processing modules, the weather variables and the actual power output data to heuristically build one or more neural networks to infer non-linear relationships between the weather variables and the actual power output data of the wind energy facility to produce a specific power output forecast for each numerical weather prediction model;
projecting a current time-series representation of power output of the wind energy facility to create a persistence power output forecast; and
creating an ensemble average consensus power output forecast for the specified period of time from numerical weather prediction models and persistence power output forecast comprising ensemble members, each ensemble member having a weight determined by recent and real-time statistical assessments of an accuracy of each specific power output forecast for the wind energy facility.
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Abstract
A wind energy forecasting system processes data from one or more numerical weather prediction models with power output data from a wind energy facility using artificial intelligence. This artificial intelligence is applied in one or more neural networks that produce specific power output forecasts for each numerical weather prediction model. A statistical ensembling approach is then applied to the resulting numerical weather prediction model forecasts and integrated with a persistence power output forecast to arrive at a consensus, overall forecasted power output for the wind energy facility.
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1. A method of forecasting power output of a wind energy facility, comprising:
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ingesting one or more data sets representative of meteorological forecasts for an area in which a wind energy facility is located from at least one of multiple numerical predictive weather models; extracting weather variables from the one or more data sets having an expected relationship to a power output production generated by the wind energy facility; ingesting an actual power output data that is representative of historical power output of the wind energy facility for a specified period of time; applying, within a computing environment comprised of at least one computer processor configured to model a specific power output forecast for a wind energy facility within a plurality of data processing modules, the weather variables and the actual power output data to heuristically build one or more neural networks to infer non-linear relationships between the weather variables and the actual power output data of the wind energy facility to produce a specific power output forecast for each numerical weather prediction model; projecting a current time-series representation of power output of the wind energy facility to create a persistence power output forecast; and creating an ensemble average consensus power output forecast for the specified period of time from numerical weather prediction models and persistence power output forecast comprising ensemble members, each ensemble member having a weight determined by recent and real-time statistical assessments of an accuracy of each specific power output forecast for the wind energy facility. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A wind energy forecasting system, comprising:
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at least one computer processor operably coupled to at least one computer-readable storage medium having program instructions stored therein, the at least one computer processor configured to execute the program instructions to model weather variables representative of one or more meteorological conditions and generate specific power output forecasts for a wind energy facility in a plurality of data processing modules, the plurality of data processing modules including; an input data collection module configured to continually ingest weather data comprising the weather variables from one or more numerical weather prediction model runs, an actual power output data collection module configured to ingest data relative to a real-time and historical power output of the wind energy facility over a specified period of time; a plurality of neural networks heuristically built from the weather variables from the input data collection module and the historical power output from the actual power output data collection module, and trained to infer non-linear relationships between the weather variables and the historical power output of the wind energy facility to produce a specific power output forecast for each numerical weather prediction model for the meteorological conditions represented in the weather variables; an ensembling module configured to aggregate the specific power output forecasts from each numerical weather prediction model run, and a persistence power output forecast based on real-time power output, into an ensemble of members by continuously tracking statistical properties of each specific power output forecast to assign a weight for each specific power output forecast, the weight determined based on a minimum variance estimation; and a power production module configured to generate output data representative of a consensus power output forecast for the wind energy facility. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of forecasting power output of a wind energy facility, comprising:
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modeling weather variables from a plurality of numerical weather prediction models and actual power output data of wind energy facility, by; heuristically building one or more neural networks by training each neural network to infer non-linear relationships between the weather variables and the actual power output data of wind energy facility to produce a specific power output forecast for each numerical weather prediction model for the meteorological conditions represented in the weather variables; aggregating the numerical weather prediction models from which the specific power output forecasts are produced into an ensemble of numerical weather prediction model members; and statistically combining the specific power output forecast for each numerical weather predictive model with a real-time persistence power output forecast of the wind energy facility by assigning a weight to each specific power output forecast to produce a minimum variance estimate. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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