Nowadays, it is of great interest to know and forecast the solar energy resource that will be constantly available in order to optimize its use. The generation of electrical energy using CSP (concentrated solar power) plants is mostly affected by atmospheric changes. Therefore, forecasting solar irradiance is essential for planning a plant's operation. Solar irradiance/atmospheric (clouds) interaction studies using satellite and sky images can help to prepare plant operators for solar surface irradiance fluctuations. In this work, we present three methodologies that allow us to estimate direct normal irradiance (DNI). The study was carried out at the Solar Irradiance Observatory (SIO) at the Geophysics Institute (UNAM) in Mexico City using corresponding images obtained with a sky camera and starting from a clear sky model. The multiple linear regression and polynomial regression models as well as the neural networks model designed in the present study, were structured to work under all sky conditions (cloudy, partly cloudy and cloudless), obtaining estimation results with 82% certainty for all sky types. and overcast skies over the short-term (from 1 to 180 min) using a sky camera, where the average nRMSE values obtained were 24. 36%, 20.9% and 19.17%, respectively [5]. G. Reikard calculated the solar irradiance over time horizons of 60, 30, 15, and 5 min, implementing Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) with errors between 20% and 90% [6]. Solar irradiance forecasting applied to photovoltaic energy production was implemented using the Smart Persistence algorithm in Machine Learning techniques, achieving an nRMSE of 25% on the best panels over short horizons, and 33% over a 6 h horizon [7].An analysis of energy forecasting in solar-tower plants combining a short-term solar irradiation forecasting scheme with a solar-tower plant model, the System Advisor Model (SAM), was used to simulate the behavior of the Gemasolar and Crescent Dunes plants. The findings showed that the best results appeared for the 90-min horizon, where the annual forecasting energy yield for Gemasolar was 97.34 GWh year while for Crescent Dunes it was 392.57 GWh year [8]. Similarly, cloud abundance forecasting has been studied for timescales of between (1-180 min), resulting in short-term forecasting (of less than one hour) and medium-term forecasting (up to 3 h), which was proven to have an 80% success rate-indeed, it was so successful that an application (portal) tool was developed that helps to increase power plant production [9,10].Recent studies have presented a method for the probabilistic forecasting of solar irradiance based on the joint Probability Distribution Function (PDF) of irradiance predicted using the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and the irradiance observed; these are based on models of meteorological processes such as atmospheric dynamics, cloud formation and radiative transfer processes [11]. H. Yang and B. Kurtz estimated direct solar irradiance over the short and medium term for different sky conditions ...
The atmospheric conditions existing where concentrated solar power plants (CSP) are installed need to be carefully studied. A very important reason for this is because the presence of clouds causes drops in electricity generated from solar energy. Therefore, forecasting the cloud displacement trajectory in real time is one of the functions and tools that CSP operators must develop for plant optimization, and to anticipate drops in solar irradiance. For short forecast of cloud movement (10 min) is enough with describe the cloud advection while for longer forecast (over 15 min), it is necessary to predict both advection and cloud changes. In this paper, we present a model that predict only the cloud advection displacement trajectory for different sky conditions and cloud types at the pixel level, using images obtained from a sky camera, as well as mathematical methods and the Lucas-Kanade method to measure optical flow. In the short term, up to 10 min the future position of the cloud front is predicted with 92% certainty while for 25–30 min, the best predicted precision was 82%.
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