Multitime-scale data-driven spatio-temporal forecast of photovoltaic generation

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 104-112

  Yang, Chen ^a   Thatte, Anupam A ^b   Xie, Le ^b  

^a New York ISO ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive processes; photovoltaic (PV) generation forecast; solar irradiance; spatial correlation; spatio temporal (ST)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AUTO REGRESSIVE PROCESS; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84919914525     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2359974     Document Type: Article

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