Integrative Probabilistic Short-term Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification of Wind Power Generation
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We develop an integrative framework to predict the wind power output, considering many uncertainties. For probabilistic wind power forecasts, all the sources of uncertainties arising from both wind speed prediction and wind-to-power conversion process should be collectively addressed. To this end, we model the wind speed using the inhomogeneous geometric Brownian motion and convert the wind speed's prediction density into the wind power density in a closed-form. The resulting wind power density allows us to quantify prediction uncertainties through prediction intervals and to forecast the power that can minimize the expected prediction cost with unequal penalties on the overestimation and underestimation. We evaluate the predictive power of the proposed approach using data from commercial wind farms located in different sites. The results suggest that our approach outperforms alternative approaches in terms of multiple performance measures.
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