Abstract
<p>The amount of wind farms and wind power production in Europe, both on- and off-shore, increased rapidly in the past years. To ensure grid stability, on-time (re)scheduling of maintenance tasks and mitigate fees in energy trading, accurate predictions of wind speed and wind power are needed. It has become particularly important to improve wind speed predictions in the short range of one to six hours as wind speed variability in this range has been found to pose the largest operational challenges. Furthermore, accurate predictions of extreme wind events are of high importance to wind farm operators as timely knowledge of these can both prevent damages and offer economic preparedness. We propose in this work a deep convolutional recurrent neural network (RNN) based regression model for the spatio-temporal prediction of extreme wind speed events over Europe in the short-to-medium range (12 hour lead-time in 1 hour intervals). This is achieved by training a multi-layered convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) network with imbalanced regression loss, to which end we investigate three different loss functions: the inversely weighted mean absolute error (W-MAE) loss, the inversely weighted mean squared error (W-MSE) loss and the squared error-relevance area (SERA) loss. </p><p>The results indicate superior performance of the SERA loss, showing significant improvements on high intensity extreme events. The W-MAE and W-MSE shows no improvements over the standard MSE loss and we thus discourage the usage of the inverse weighting method. We conclude that the SERA loss provides an effective way to adapt deep learning to the task of imbalanced spatio-temporal regression and its application to the forecasting of extreme wind events in the short-to-medium range. </p><p> This work was performed as a part of the MEDEA project, which is funded by the Austrian Climate Research Program to further research on renewable energy and meteorologically induced extreme events.</p>
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