Essam, Yusuf and Ahmed, Ali Najah and Ramli, Rohaini and Chau, Kwok-Wing and Ibrahim, Muhammad Shazril Idris and Sherif, Mohsen and Sefelnasr, Ahmed and El-Shafie, Ahmed (2022) Investigating photovoltaic solar power output forecasting using machine learning algorithms. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 16 (1). pp. 2002-2034. ISSN 1994-2060, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2022.2126528.
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Solar power integration in electrical grids is complicated due to dependence on volatile weather conditions. To address this issue, continuous research and development is required to determine the best machine learning (ML) algorithm for PV solar power output forecasting. Existing studies have established the superiority of the artificial neural network (ANN) and random forest (RF) algorithms in this field. However, more recent studies have demonstrated promising PV solar power output forecasting performances by the decision tree (DT), extreme gradient boosting (XGB), and long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithms. Therefore, the present study aims to address a research gap in this field by determining the best performer among these 5 algorithms. A data set from the United States' National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) consisting of weather parameters and solar power output data for a monocrystalline silicon PV module in Cocoa, Florida was utilized. Comparisons of forecasting scores show that the ANN algorithm is superior as the ANN16 model produces the best mean absolute error (MAE), root mean squared error (RMSE) and coefficient of determination (R (2)) with values of 0.4693, 0.8816 W, and 0.9988, respectively. It is concluded that ANN is the most reliable and applicable algorithm for PV solar power output forecasting.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Solar power forecasting; Decision tree; Random forest; Extreme gradient boosting; Artificial neural network; Long short-term memory |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering > Department of Civil Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2023 01:15 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2023 01:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/41032 |
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