Variable Support Segment-Based Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting

Ke Zhang, Xiao Li and Jie Su
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Ke Zhang: School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
Xiao Li: School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
Jie Su: School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: Accurate short-term wind speed forecasting plays an important role in the development of wind energy. However, the inertia of airflow means that wind speed has the properties of time variance and inertia, which pose a challenge in the task of wind speed forecasting. We employ the variable support segment method to describe these two properties. We then propose a variable support segment-based short-term wind speed forecasting model to improve wind speed forecasting accuracy. The core idea is to adaptively determine the variable support segment of the future wind speed by a self-attention mechanism. Historical wind speed series are first decomposed into several components by variational mode decomposition (VMD). Then, the future values of each component are forecast using a modified Transformer model. Finally, the forecasting values of these components are summed to obtain the future wind speed forecasting values. Wind speed data collected from a wind farm were employed to validate the performance of the proposed model. The mean absolute error of the proposed model in spring, summer, autumn, and winter is 0.25, 0.33, 0.31, and 0.29, respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves significant accuracy and that the modified Transformer model has good performance.

Keywords: wind speed forecasting; variable support segment; VMD; Transformer; attention mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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