A data-driven approach for estimating the power generation of invisible solar sites

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2466-2476

  Shaker, Hamid ^a   Zareipour, Hamidreza ^a   Wood, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

behind the meter solar; Big data; clustering; data dimension reduction; invisible solar power generation; principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY;

DATA DIMENSION REDUCTION; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LARGE SCALE DATA; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; MEASURED VALUES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84949883007     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2015.2502140     Document Type: Article

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