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Application of Radial Basis Function Networks for Wind Power Forecasting

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Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006 (ICANN 2006)

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In this paper, an advanced system based on artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic techniques is developed to predict the wind power output of a wind farm. A fuzzy logic model is applied first to check the reliability of the numerical weather predictions (NWPs) and to split them in two sub-sets, of good and bad quality NWPs, respectively. Two Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks, one for each sub-set are trained next to estimate the wind power. Results from a real wind farm are presented and the added value of the proposed method is demonstrated by comparison with alternative methods.

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Sideratos, G., Hatziargyriou, N.D. (2006). Application of Radial Basis Function Networks for Wind Power Forecasting. In: Kollias, S., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., Oja, E. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006. ICANN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11840930_76

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