To improve the accuracy of photovoltaic power prediction
an improved Transformer probability prediction method is proposed
including data preprocessing
prediction model
and post-processing process. Given the problem of missing photovoltaic power data
this paper proposes a random forest interpolation method guided by the predicted mean to interpolate the missing data and improve the data integrity. Then
a probability prediction method based on the enhanced Transformer model is introduced. The model uses a multi-head attention mechanism combined with a normalization layer and a residual connection to strengthen the robustness of the model and its ability to handle long sequence dependency problems. In the post-processing stage
a fourth-order polynomial and LSTM are combined to correct the prediction error. Finally
historical data are used for experimental verification
and the results show that the proposed model has high prediction accuracy and reliability.
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