Day-Ahead Power Output Forecasting for Small-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Electricity Generators

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2253-2262

  Zhang, Yue ^a   Beaudin, Marc ^a   Taheri, Raouf ^a   Zareipour, Hamidreza ^a   Wood, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forecasting; prediction; similar day; solar power

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FORECASTING; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

FORECASTING TOOLS; PAPER ANALYSIS; POWER FORECASTING; POWER OUT PUT; RAPID GROWTH; SIMILAR DAY; SOLAR ELECTRICITY; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ELECTRICITY;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 85027951223     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2015.2397003     Document Type: Article

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