Smart City Gnosys
Smart city article details
| Title | Transfer Learning Strategies For Solar Power Forecasting Under Data Scarcity |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 58763 |
| Authors | Sarmas E.; Dimitropoulos N.; Marinakis V.; Mylona Z.; Doukas H. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Scientific Reports, 12, 1 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18516-x |
| Abstract | Accurately forecasting solar plants production is critical for balancing supply and demand and for scheduling distribution networks operation in the context of inclusive smart cities and energy communities. However, the problem becomes more demanding, when there is insufficient amount of data to adequately train forecasting models, due to plants being recently installed or because of lack of smart-meters. Transfer learning (TL) offers the capability of transferring knowledge from the source domain to different target domains to resolve related problems. This study uses the stacked Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model with three TL strategies to provide accurate solar plant production forecasts. TL is exploited both for weight initialization of the LSTM model and for feature extraction, using different freezing approaches. The presented TL strategies are compared to the conventional non-TL model, as well as to the smart persistence model, at forecasting the hourly production of 6 solar plants. Results indicate that TL models significantly outperform the conventional one, achieving 12.6% accuracy improvement in terms of RMSE and 16.3% in terms of forecast skill index with 1 year of training data. The gap between the two approaches becomes even bigger when fewer training data are available (especially in the case of a 3-month training set), breaking new ground in power production forecasting of newly installed solar plants and rendering TL a reliable tool in the hands of self-producers towards the ultimate goal of energy balancing and demand response management from an early stage. © 2022, The Author(s). |
| Author Keywords |
Similar Articles
| Id | Similarity | Authors | Title | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
17813  | 0.869 | Sharma P.K.; Kumar M.V.K.; Ahmad M.W.; Radhika M. | Deep Learning And Multi-Horizontal Solar Energy Forecasting Of Different Weather Conditions In Smart Cities | Sustainable Smart Homes and Buildings with Internet of Things (2024) |
| 39232 | 0.868 | Himeur Y.; Elnour M.; Fadli F.; Meskin N.; Petri I.; Rezgui Y.; Bensaali F.; Amira A. | Next-Generation Energy Systems For Sustainable Smart Cities: Roles Of Transfer Learning | Sustainable Cities and Society, 85 (2022) |
| 6687 | 0.863 | Rao B.S.; Aparna M.; Raju M.S.N. | Advancing Smart City Energy Management: Very Short-Term Photovoltaic Power Generation Forecasting Using Multi-Scale Long Short-Term Memory Deep Learning | Biomass and Solar-Powered Sustainable Digital Cities (2024) |
| 52235 | 0.857 | Sankari S.S.; Kumar P.S. | Solar Power Forecasting In Smart Cities Using Deep Learning Approaches: A Review | International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Technovation, 6, 6 (2024) |
| 36015 | 0.855 | Suanpang P.; Jamjuntr P. | Machine Learning Models For Solar Power Generation Forecasting In Microgrid Application Implications For Smart Cities | Sustainability (Switzerland), 16, 14 (2024) |
| 5628 | 0.854 | Torres M.V.; Shahid Z.; Mitra K.; Saguna S.; Ahlund C. | A Transfer Learning Approach To Create Energy Forecasting Models For Building Fleets | 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, SmartGridComm 2024 (2024) |
| 62095 | 0.854 | Alagarsamy M.; Rajasekaran U.; Ganesan S.; Palanivel R. | Xai-Based Photovoltaic Energy Management Framework For Smart Cities | IEEE Access, 13 (2025) |