The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal

2014, 8 : 501-507
Published online 2014 December 31. DOI: 10.2174/1874129001408010501
Publisher ID: TOEEJ-8-501

A Statistical Model for Wind Power Forecast Error Based on Kernel Density Estimation

Liyang Liu , Junji Wu and Shaoliang Meng
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, 210094, China.

ABSTRACT

Wind power has been developed rapidly as a clean energy in recent years. The forecast error of wind power, however, makes it difficult to use wind power effectively. In some former statistical models, the forecast error was usually assumed to be a Gaussian distribution, which had proven to be unreliable after a statistical analysis. In this paper, a more suitable probability density function for wind power forecast error based on kernel density estimation was proposed. The proposed model is a non-parametric statistical algorithm and can directly obtain the probability density function from the error data, which do not need to make any assumptions. This paper also presented an optimal bandwidth algorithm for kernel density estimation by using particle swarm optimization, and employed a Chi-squared test to validate the model. Compared with Gaussian distribution and Beta distribution, the mean squared error and Chi-squared test show that the proposed model is more effective and reliable.

Keywords:

Wind power, Forecast error, Probability density function, Kernel density estimation, Optimal bandwidth.