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Bottom-up estimation and top-down prediction in multi-level models: Solar Energy Prediction combining information from multiple sources

Jae-Kwang Kim
Iowa State University

Accurately forecasting solar power using a statistical method from multiple sources is an important but challenging problem. Our goal is to combine two different physics model forecasting outputs with real measurements from an automated monitoring network so as to better predict solar power in a timely manner. To this end, we propose a bottom-up approach of analyzing large-scale multilevel models with great computational efficiency requiring minimum monitoring and intervention. This approach features a division of the large scale data set into smaller ones with manageable sizes, based on their physical locations, and fit a local model in each area. The local model estimates are then combined sequentially from the specified multilevel models using our novel bottom-up approach for parameter estimation. The prediction, on the other hand, is implemented in a top-down matter. The proposed method is applied to the solar energy prediction problem for the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative.

 

http://jkim.public.iastate.edu

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