Improving short-term offshore wind speed forecast accuracy using a VMD-PE-FCGRU hybrid model

Zhipeng Gong, Anping Wan, Yunsong Ji, Khalil AL-Bukhaiti and Zhehe Yao

Energy, 2024, vol. 295, issue C

Abstract: The integration of large-scale offshore wind power into the power grid presents significant challenges for grid operation and dispatch due to the variability and intermittency of offshore wind energy. However, non-stationarities and noise in wind speed time series pose challenges. This study proposes a VMD-PE-FCGRU methodology to address this challenge of predicting offshore wind speeds. Firstly, the Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) algorithm decomposes the original wind speed signal, considering the strong fluctuations and high noise inherent to offshore wind energy. A corresponding performance evaluation index is established to assess the effectiveness of this deconstruction process. To further enhance the model's (GRU) ability to capture time series information, a Position Encoding layer (PE) has been added, and the network is deepened through a Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN). This allows multi-dimensional time series features to be input into the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) network for forecast. The accuracy of the proposed method is then verified using measured historical data from the wind tower of an offshore wind farm in Guangdong. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can accurately forecast short-term wind speeds for offshore wind farms, with a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.199 and a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of only 2.45%. Moreover, the qualified rate (r) reaches 100%, providing an accurate reference for real-time power grid dispatching and can inform decision-making for the integration of offshore wind power into the grid.

Keywords: Offshore wind speed forecast; Variational mode decomposition; Positional encoding; Deep learning; Hybrid model; Time series forecasting; Ablation study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131016

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