Extreme learning machines on PV generation regression

• Main Author: Chin, Ken Liang Koon
• Other Authors: Farank Golestaneh
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/64706
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Most countries in the world rely heavily on coal, oil and natural gas for its energy. But they are non-renewable and is currently depleting from its finite resources. This also led to the huge increase of their cost over the years. In contrast, renewable energy are constantly replenished and will never run out. This is why the world is interested in harnessing solar energy as its potential is immense and having environmental advantages. In this project, solar power is the subject of research. As the technology of solar energy advance, higher efficiency and power quality of photovoltaic (PV) power output is being studied. One of the ways is to provide accurate prediction continuously to PV power plants as fast as possible so it will balance its energy dispatch. Forecasting algorithm such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) algorithms were being used. The introduction of Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) algorithms have overwhelming by the learning speed and accuracy. Several methods of ELM are used to find the one who gives the best accuracy at the fastest speed.