Improving Renewable Energy Forecasting with a Grid of Numerical Weather Predictions

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1571-1580

  Andrade, Jose R ^a   Bessa, Ricardo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Feature engineering; forecasting; probabilistic; solar energy; spatial; temporal; weather predictions; wind energy

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SOLAR ENERGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WIND POWER;

FEATURE ENGINEERINGS; PROBABILISTIC; SPATIAL; TEMPORAL; WEATHER PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85027151564     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2017.2694340     Document Type: Article

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