Wind energy: Forecasting challenges for its operational management

Statistical Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 564-585

  Pinson, Pierre ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decision making; Electricity markets; Forecast verification; Gaussian copula; Linear and nonlinear regression; Parametric and nonparametric predictive densities; Power systems operations; Quantile regression; Renewable energy; Space time trajectories; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891809865     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-STS445     Document Type: Article

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