A Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting Model by Using Artificial Neural Networks with Stochastic Optimization for Renewable Energy Systems

Abstract

To efficiently manage unstable wind power generation, precise short-term wind speed forecasting is critical. To overcome the challenges in wind speed forecasting, this paper proposes a new convolutional neural network algorithm for short-term forecasting. In this paper, the forecasting performance of the proposed algorithm was compared to that of four other artificial intelligence algorithms commonly used in wind speed forecasting. Numerical testing results based on data from a designated wind site in Taiwan were used to demonstrate the efficiency of above-mentioned proposed learning method. Mean absolute error (MAE) and root-mean-square error (RMSE) were adopted as accuracy evaluation indexes in this paper. Experimental results indicate that the MAE and RMSE values of the proposed algorithm are 0.800227 and 0.999978, respectively, demonstrating very high forecasting accuracy.