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Wind energy prediction has an important part to play in a smart energy grid for load balancing and capacity planning. In this paper we explore, if wind measurements based on the existing infrastructure of windmills in neighbored wind parks can be learned with a soft computing approach for wind energy prediction in the ten-minute to six-hour range. For this sake we employ Support Vector Regression (SVR) for time series forecasting, and run experimental analyses on real-world wind data from the NREL western wind resource dataset. In the experimental part of the paper we concentrate on loss function parameterization of SVR. We try to answer how far ahead a reliable wind forecast is possible, and how much information from the past is necessary.We demonstrate the capabilities of SVR-based wind energy forecast on the micro-scale level of one wind grid point, and on the larger scale of a whole wind park.
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Kramer, O., Gieseke, F. (2011). Short-Term Wind Energy Forecasting Using Support Vector Regression. In: Corchado, E., Snášel, V., Sedano, J., Hassanien, A.E., Calvo, J.L., Ślȩzak, D. (eds) Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, 6th International Conference SOCO 2011. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 87. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19644-7_29
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