To enhance the accuracy of wind power forecasting and solve the lag in single neural network models when predicting fluctuating and intermittent wind power data
this paper proposes a hybrid forecasting model integrating Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD)
Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCN)
Gated Recurrent Units (GRU)
and Attention Mechanism (AM). The model employs VMD to decompose raw wind power data into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) with different central frequencies
decreasing the data's stochasticity and volatility. Subsequently
the TCN-GRU-AM model independently predicts these IMF subsequence. The combination of TCN and GRU effectively captures the complex features and temporal dependencies within each subsequence
while AM boosts the model's capacity to recognize crucial time steps in time series data. Ultimately
the predicted components are superimposed and reconstructed to yield the final wind power prediction outcome. Experimental results demonstrate that this model significantly enhances forecasting precision and effectively mitigates the lag phenomenon.
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School of New Energy, Shenyang Institute of Engineering
Liaoning Solar Energy Research and Application Co., Ltd.
State Key Laboratory of Power Grid Security and Energy Conservation(China Electric Power Research Institute)
Key Laboratory of Modern Power System Simulation and Control & Renewable Energy Technology, Ministry of Education (Northeast Electric Power University)
College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University