Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Wind Power for Multi-turbines in a Wind Farm

The prediction of wind power plays an indispensable role in maintaining the stability of the entire power grid. In this paper, a deep learning approach is proposed for the power prediction of multiple wind turbines. Starting from the time series of wind power, it is present a two-stage modeling strategy, in which a deep neural network combines spatiotemporal correlation to simultaneously predict the power of multiple wind turbines. Specifically, the network is a joint model composed of Long Short-Term Memory Network (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Herein, the LSTM captures the temporal dependence of the historical power sequence, while the CNN extracts the spatial features among the data, thereby achieving the power prediction for multiple wind turbines. The proposed approach is validated by using the wind power data from an offshore wind farm in China, and the results in comparison with other approaches shows the high prediction preciseness achieved by the proposed approach.