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Optimal combinaison of CFD modeling and statistical learning for short-term wind power forecasting

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After almost three decades of active research, short-term wind power forecasting is now considered as a mature field. It has been widely and successfully put into operation within the past ten years. Meteodyn with over a decade of experience in wind engineering has contributed to this spread with tens of wind farm equipped with forecast solutions around the world. Our next-generation short-term forecasting solution has been designed to makes the most of both a tailored micro-scale CFD modeling and advanced statistical learning. In the frame of our model design, various options have been considered and evaluated taking into account both model performance and operational constraints. Two main approaches for wind power forecasting are usually considered in the literature (and sometimes opposed): “physical” and “statistical”. It is widely admitted that an optimal combination of both is necessary to build a high performance forecasting system. However, behind "optimal combination" resides a wide variety of design options. We propose here to shed some light on what performances one should expect from several modeling options for combining physics (mesoscale/CFD modeling) and statistics (grey/black box statistical learning, phase/magnitude correction, data filtering). Case studies are taken from real wind farms in various climate and terrain conditions.
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Optimal combination of CFD modeling and statistical learning for shortterm wind power forecasting Stéphane SANQUER & Jérémie JUBAN- meteodyn
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Page 1: Optimal combinaison of CFD modeling and statistical learning for short-term wind power forecasting

Optimal combination of CFD modeling and statistical

learning for short–term wind power forecasting

Stéphane SANQUER & Jérémie JUBAN- meteodyn

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Wind power depends on the volability of the wind

Two times scale are relevant : one for the wind turbine controle (up

to few sec.), one for the integration of power in the grid (minutes to

weeks)

Why a forecast ?

-Optimise the planning of conventional power plants (3-10h)

-Optimise the value of produced electricity in the market (0-48h)

-Schedule the maintenance of the farm and the transmission lines

(day to week)

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The model can be physical, statistical or twice

Very short term statistical approaches use scada as input (look ahead time <6h)

A forecast system for horizons >6h always includes a Numerical Weather Prediction system (NWP) and sometimes a Model Output Statistic system to optimize the forecast (MOS)

•Source : Anemos Project ” The State-Of-The-Art in

Short-Term Prediction of Wind Power”

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Average NMAE for 12 hours forecast horizon vs RIX Source: Best Practice in Short-Term Forecasting. A Users Guide

Gregor Giebel(Risø National Laboratory, DTU), George Kariniotakis( Ecole des Mines de Paris)

12 models tested on various terrains to consider the local effects

Errors increase with the terrain complexity.

Terrain modeling can be introduced to improve the

performance of the forecast system.

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To define an optimal combination of both physical and statistical

modeling in order to reach the highest forecast performance

To use a learning model (« black box ») based on a data set of

couples measurement/prediction. Here we use a Artificial Neural

Network (ANN)

To minimize the prediction error by introducing automatic

error corrections while keeping the advantage

of the full physical modeling

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Global model

0.125 or 0.5 degrees

Resolution

GFS, ECM WF

Mesoscale model .

1 km to 15 km

resolution

WRF.

Microscale

model

25 m resolution

Meteodyn WT

Statistical

modelling

DATA

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Mesoscale models compute the wind above the ground with a resolution from 1 km to 5 km.

Mesoscale models consider the thermal effects on the boundary layer behaviors. The NWP data defines the stability class at each time step.

Mesoscale models can not compute well enough the effects of complex terrains and should be mixed with microscale models. Microscale computations are carried out for various stability classes

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The mesoscale points are transfered to each wind turbine thanks to the « speed coefficients » obtained by the CFD model

Local effects taken into account : Orography, Land-use

The windspeed coefficients allow the statistical correction of NWP data and power curves correction, by using met mast measurements.

Calibration takes into account seasonal variations (snow, foliage density, …)

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Global model

0.125 or 0.5 degrees

Resolution

GFS, ECM WF

Mesoscale model .

1 km to 15 km

resolution

WRF.

Microscale

model

25 m resolution

Meteodyn WT

Statistical

modelling

DATA

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Global model

0.125 or 0.5 degrees

Resolution

GFS, ECM WF

Mesoscale model .

1 km to 15 km

resolution

WRF.

Microscale

model

25 m resolution

Meteodyn WT

Statistical

modelling

DATA

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How to define Neural Network Architecture?

(number of layers, number of neurons)

Increasing complexity

Map several inputs to an output

Input: Forecast power, NWP variables and

production data

Output: wind power or wind speed

The supervised mapping function is learnt from data

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Define three sets

A Testing set choose architecture (testing error)

A Training set training the network (training error)

Finally, a validation set computes true error.

Training Error

Testing error

Expected minimum error

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Wind Farm in China with a complex terrain and weather regimes

Learning period : 06/2010 to 02/2012

Testing period : 03/2012 to 11/2012

Forecast horizons : +6h to 46h

Forecast steps : 15 min. Runs :4/day

Input variables

NWP : V, Dir, S, T, r,Patm

Park production

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Mesoscale modeling is used to compute the wind

above the site

Model GFS/WRF

Resolution 5 km

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Wind speed and production are computed by considering all the relevant parameters

Orography and roughness of terrains Density of air Power curves Wake effects

CFD

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After learning of the ANN model, the production is forecast

and compared to the real production

Production is globally well forecasted

Some time lags are observed

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ANN model reduce forecasting errors of pure physical approach

Improvements on MAE and RMSE are respectively 5% and 16%

RMSE reduced to

16% bound

MAE reduced to

10.5% bound

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RMSE is roughly constant and depends slightly on the look ahead time

ANN model benefits are the same in the ranges 6h-30h and 22h-46h

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An optimal combination of statistical and physical modeling

is central to high performance forecasting

Even for complex terrains, as soon as micro-CFD modeling

is performed, Even with weather regime, by coupling NWP

with Statistical learning for short term wind power forecasting,

RMSE about 15% can be achieved for horizons in the range

6h-48h. MAE reach 10% bound as for flat terrains.

Introducing advanced statistical learning leads to significant

improvement over a pure (even advanced) physical approach


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