Supervised learning of photovoltaic power plant output prediction models

Abstract

This article presents an application of evolutionary fuzzy rules to the modeling and prediction of power output of a real-world Photovoltaic Power Plant (PVPP). The method is compared to artificial neural networks and support vector regression that were also used to build predictors in order to analyse a time-series like data describing the production of the PVPP. The models of the PVPP are created using different supervised machine learning methods in order to forecast the short-term output of the power plant and compare the accuracy of the prediction.