Scientific and technical journal

«Automation and Informatization of the fuel and energy complex»

ISSN 0132-2222

Automation and Informatization of the fuel and energy complex
Short-term prediction of solar radiation using satellite images and a long-term recurrent convolutional neural network

UDC: 621.311
DOI: 10.33285/2782-604X-2022-10(591)-37-44

Authors:

VELICHKO ARSENY I.1,
ZUBAKIN VASILY A.1,
TERNIKOV OLEG V.1,
TREGUBENKO MAXIM D.2

1 National University of Oil and Gas "Gubkin University", Moscow, Russia
2 Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Keywords: renewable energy sources, satellite imagery, deep learning, computer vision, solar power plant, cloud motion vector, convolutional neural network, wholesale electricity and power market

Annotation:

The article describes the main methods of short-term prediction of insolation on the Earth's surface; the prediction was carried out using a model based on the processing of satellite images and the CNN-LSTM neural network.

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