Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting at the Wind Farm Scale Using Long-Range Doppler LiDAR
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia
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School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia
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Academic Editor: Sergio Martínez
Energies 2021, 14(9), 2663; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092663
Received: 13 April 2021
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Revised: 23 April 2021
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Accepted: 26 April 2021
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Published: 6 May 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Generation in Low Inertia Power Systems)
It remains unclear to what extent remote sensing instruments can effectively improve the accuracy of short-term wind power forecasts. This work seeks to address this issue by developing and testing two novel forecasting methodologies, based on measurements from a state-of-the-art long-range scanning Doppler LiDAR. Both approaches aim to predict the total power generated at the wind farm scale with a five minute lead time and use successive low-elevation sector scans as input. The first approach is physically based and adapts the solar short-term forecasting approach referred to as “smart-persistence” to wind power forecasting. The second approaches the same short-term forecasting problem using convolutional neural networks. The two methods were tested over a 72 day assessment period at a large wind farm site in Victoria, Australia, and a novel adaptive scanning strategy was implemented to retrieve high-resolution LiDAR measurements. Forecast performances during ramp events and under various stability conditions are presented. Results showed that both LiDAR-based forecasts outperformed the persistence and ARIMA benchmarks in terms of mean absolute error and root-mean-squared error. This study is therefore a proof-of-concept demonstrating the potential offered by remote sensing instruments for short-term wind power forecasting applications.
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Keywords:
remote sensing; short-term forecast; wind power ramps
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Pichault, M.; Vincent, C.; Skidmore, G.; Monty, J. Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting at the Wind Farm Scale Using Long-Range Doppler LiDAR. Energies 2021, 14, 2663. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092663
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Pichault M, Vincent C, Skidmore G, Monty J. Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting at the Wind Farm Scale Using Long-Range Doppler LiDAR. Energies. 2021; 14(9):2663. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092663
Chicago/Turabian StylePichault, Mathieu, Claire Vincent, Grant Skidmore, and Jason Monty. 2021. "Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting at the Wind Farm Scale Using Long-Range Doppler LiDAR" Energies 14, no. 9: 2663. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092663
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