Benchmarking Intelligent and Interpretable Models for Irradiance-Driven PV Power Prediction
摘要
This paper presents a reproducible benchmark for irradiance-driven PV power prediction using five years of hourly NASA POWER data (2020–2024) for Hengsha Island, Shanghai. Because measured plant output was unavailable, the response variable is an engineered normalized PV proxy derived from irradiance and temperature, so the reported results should be interpreted as benchmark evidence rather than field validation against measured SCADA power. The workflow applies leakage-safe chronological partitioning, common feature engineering, daylight-only evaluation, and persistence-style skill comparison across XGBoost, Random Forest, ANFIS-SC, GRU, LSTM, and CNN-BiGRU-AM. On the 2024 test set, tree ensembles achieve the strongest benchmark accuracy (XGBoost: