The percentage of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind power and biomass in the energy mix of India is increasing every year. Solar power variability is an important issue for grid integration of solar photovoltaic power plants. The main objective of this paper is to forecast the power generated in a 5 MW solar PV plant owned by Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) at Charanka solar park, Gujarat. Charanka is a location with an average of 320 sunny days in a year. Average solar insolation available here is 5.7-6.0 kWh/m2 per day. Data obtained from 1st March 2014-31st August 2014 is used for analysis purposes. In this paper a two stage procedure is used referred to as GNN (Generalized Neural Network) model. In the primary stage pre-processing is done on the raw data followed by neural network model for forecasting. © 2015 IEEE.

Ravindra Brammajyosula

Department of Mechanical Engineering

IIT Jodhpur

Vivek Vijay

Department of Mathematics

V.P. Singh

M.S. Bhatt

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Journal	Data powered by TypesetProceedings of the 2015 39th National Systems Conference, NSC 2015
Publisher	Data powered by TypesetInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Open Access	No