Wind turbine power curve modeling for reliable power prediction using monotonic regression

Mehrdad Mehrjoo, Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Miroslaw Pawlak

Renewable Energy, 2020, vol. 147, issue P1, 214-222

Abstract: Wind turbine power curve modeling plays an important role in wind energy management and power forecasting and it is often done based on parametric or non-parametric methods. As wind-power data are often noisy, even after polishing data using proper methods, fitted wind turbine power curves could be very different from the theoretical ones that are provided by manufacturers. For example, it might be the case that the theoretical wind turbine power curve is a non-decreasing function of speed but the fitted statistical model does not necessarily meet this desirable property. In this paper, we present two nonparametric techniques based on tilting method and monotonic spline regression methodology to construct wind turbine power curves that preserve monotonicity. To measure the performance of our proposed methods, we evaluate and compare our estimates with some commonly used power curve fitting methods based on historical data from a wind farm in Manitoba, Canada. Results show that monotone spline regression performs the best while the tilting approach performs similar to the methods we studied in this paper with the benefit of finding a curve that is more similar to the theoretical power curve.

Keywords: Monotone regression; Nonparametric regression; Power system reliability; Renewable energy; Wind energy; Wind turbine power curve modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.060

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