New Concepts in Wind Power Forecasting Models

− This paper reports new results in adopting entropy concepts to the training of mappers such as neural networks to perform wind power prediction as a function of wind characteristics (mainly speed and direction) in wind parks connected to a power grid. Renyi’s Entropy is combined with a Parzen Windows estimation of the error pdf to form the basis of three criteria (MEE, MCC and MEEF) under which neural networks are trained. The results are favourably compared with the traditional minimum square error (MSE) criterion. Real case examples for two distinct wind parks are presented.

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