Accurate wind speed forecasting of wind farm is of great significance in economic security and stability of the grid. In order to improve the prediction accuracy, the paper first proposed a spatio-temporal correlation predictor method. Based on physical characteristics of wind speed evolution, the method looked for the wind speed and direction information at sites close to the target prediction site, and established STCP model to forecast. And then we established the BP neural network to finish multi-step forecast with wind speed time series of target forecast site .Last, two methods were combined to form STCP-BP method. Simulation tests are conducted with operation data from certain wind farm group in China and results show that STCP-BP method can effectively improve the prediction accuracy compared with BP model.
U-Convolutional model for spatio-temporal wind speed forecasting
