Short-term PV power forecasts based on a real-time irradiance monitoring network

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 75-79

  Lorenzo, Antonio T ^a   Holmgren, William F ^b   Leuthold, Michael ^a   Kim, Chang Ki ^a   Cronin, Alexander D ^b   Betterton, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

data analysis; forecasting; real time systems; sensors; solar energy

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR STATISTICS; FORECASTING; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

FORECASTING METHODS; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; IRRADIANCE SENSORS; MONITORING NETWORK; PERSISTENCE MODELS; POWER FORECAST; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SENSOR HARDWARE;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84912091477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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