Wind Speed Forecasting with Differentially Evolved Minimum-Bandwidth Filters and Gated Recurrent Units

Khathutshelo Steven Sivhugwana () and Edmore Ranganai
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Khathutshelo Steven Sivhugwana: Department of Statistics, University of South Africa, Florida Campus, Johannesburg 1709, South Africa
Edmore Ranganai: Department of Statistics, University of South Africa, Florida Campus, Johannesburg 1709, South Africa

Forecasting, 2025, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-27

Abstract: Wind data are often cyclostationary due to cyclic variations, non-constant variance resulting from fluctuating weather conditions, and structural breaks due to transient behaviour (due to wind gusts and turbulence), resulting in unreliable wind power supply. In wavelet hybrid forecasting, wind prediction accuracy depends heavily on the decomposition level ( L ) and the wavelet filter technique selected. Hence, we examined the efficacy of wind predictions as a function of L and wavelet filters. In the proposed hybrid approach, differential evolution (DE) optimises the decomposition level of various wavelet filters (i.e., least asymmetric (LA), Daubechies (DB), and Morris minimum-bandwidth (MB)) using the maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform (MODWT), allowing for the decomposition of wind data into more statistically sound sub-signals. These sub-signals are used as inputs into the gated recurrent unit (GRU) to accurately capture wind speed. The final predicted values are obtained by reconciling the sub-signal predictions using multiresolution analysis (MRA) to form wavelet-MODWT-GRUs. Using wind data from three Wind Atlas South Africa (WASA) locations, Alexander Bay, Humansdorp, and Jozini, the root mean square error, mean absolute error, coefficient of determination, probability integral transform, pinball loss, and Dawid-Sebastiani showed that the MB-MODWT-GRU at L = 3 was best across the three locations.

Keywords: wind speed; wind forecasting; MODWT; differential evolution; GRU; Morris minimum bandwidth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 B4 C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C8 M0 Q2 Q3 Q4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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