Ultra-Short–Term Forecasting of Multi-Site PV Power Based on Graph Convolution Network
摘要
Photovoltaic power has strong randomness and intermittenity. A prediction approach utilizing graph convolutional neural network is proposed to improve the accuracy of photovoltaic power forecasting. Firstly, based on the graph theory, adjacent photovoltaic sites are modeled in a graphical form. Instead of estimating the relationships between each site based on the temporal correlations of their time series, this approach captures the future dynamic relationships between neighboring sites from a predictive perspective. Subsequently, a new neural network is proposed. The network combines a residual multi-layer graph convolutional network with gated linear unit to separately extract spatial features between nodes and temporal features of each node. When extracting temporal features, discrete wavelet decomposition is utilized to enable gated linear unit to extract more temporal features. Finally, Two case studies validate that the proposed method demonstrates good information capture performance and adaptability, significantly improving the prediction accuracy of each site for 4 h-ahead prediction.