Abstract

Power utilities, developers, and investors are pushing towards larger penetrations of wind and solar energy-based power generation in their existing energy mix. This study, specifically, looks towards wind power deployment in Saudi Arabia. For profitable development of wind power, accurate knowledge of wind speed both in spatial and time domains is critical. The wind speed is the most fluctuating and intermittent parameter in nature compared to all the meteorological variables. This uncertain nature of wind speed makes wind power more difficult to predict ahead of time. Wind speed is dependent on meteorological factors such as pressure, temperature, and relative humidity and can be predicted using these meteorological parameters. The forecasting of wind speed is critical for grid management, cost of energy, and quality power supply. This study proposes a short-term, multi-dimensional prediction of wind speed based on Long-Short Term Memory Networks (LSTM). Five models are developed by training the networks with measured hourly mean wind speed values from1980 to 2019 including exogenous inputs (temperature and pressure). The study found that LSTM is a powerful tool for a short-term prediction of wind speed. However, the accuracy of LSTM may be compromised with the inclusion of exogenous features in the training sets and the duration of prediction ahead.

Highlights

  • Wind amongst other renewable sources, is becoming more popular for both grids connected large applications and isolated grids for small loads

  • The study found that Long-Short Term Memory Networks (LSTM) is a powerful tool for short term wind speed prediction

  • It is observed that the accuracy of LSTM improves as the number of training exogenous features increases

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Introduction

Wind amongst other renewable sources, is becoming more popular for both grids connected large applications and isolated grids for small loads. The grid connectivity issues and power grid managements control are getting advanced with time. Wind power is mainly affected by wind speed and weather factors such as wind direction, temperature, atmospheric pressure, and relative humidity [5]. An accurate information of the wind speed availability, that drive the wind turbines, is crucial for microgrid-siting and later for profitable and proper operation and maintenance of the system [8, 9]. The integration of wind power in microgrids where the effects of wind power fluctuations significantly affect the microgrid operation and other distributed generation were studied in [7,8,9,10]

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