Energies (Apr 2021)

2-D Convolutional Deep Neural Network for the Multivariate Prediction of Photovoltaic Time Series

  • Antonello Rosato,
  • Rodolfo Araneo,
  • Amedeo Andreotti,
  • Federico Succetti,
  • Massimo Panella

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092392
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 9
p. 2392

Abstract

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Here, we propose a new deep learning scheme to solve the energy time series prediction problem. The model implementation is based on the use of Long Short-Term Memory networks and Convolutional Neural Networks. These techniques are combined in such a fashion that inter-dependencies among several different time series can be exploited and used for forecasting purposes by filtering and joining their samples. The resulting learning scheme can be summarized as a superposition of network layers, resulting in a stacked deep neural architecture. We proved the accuracy and robustness of the proposed approach by testing it on real-world energy problems.

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