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Workshop: The Synergy of Scientific and Machine Learning Modelling (SynS & ML) Workshop

What if We Enrich day-ahead Solar Irradiance Time Series Forecasting with Spatio-Temporal Context?

Oussama Boussif · Ghait Boukachab · Dan Assouline · Stefano Massaroli · Tianle Yuan · Loubna Benabbou · Yoshua Bengio

Keywords: [ solar irradiance ] [ Time series forecasting ] [ multi-modal learning ] [ context-enriched learning ]


Abstract: The global integration of solar power into the electrical grid could have a crucial impact on climate change mitigation, yet poses a challenge due to solar irradiance variability. We present a deep learning architecture which uses spatio-temporal context from satellite data for highly accurate day-ahead time-series forecasting, in particular Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI). We provide a multi-quantile variant which outputs a prediction interval for each time-step, serving as a measure of forecasting uncertainty. In addition, we suggest a testing scheme that separates easy and difficult scenarios, which appears useful to evaluate model performance in varying cloud conditions. Our approach exhibits robust performance in solar irradiance forecasting, including zero-shot generalization tests at unobserved solar stations, and holds great promise in promoting the effective use of solar power and the resulting reduction of CO$_{2}$ emissions.

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