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Table 1 List of input variables used to forecast PV power output

From: Short-term photovoltaic power production forecasting based on novel hybrid data-driven models

  

Input variables

Time variables

\({v}_{i}^{1}\)

Month

\({v}_{i}^{2}\)

Day

\({v}_{i}^{3}\)

Hour

Weather variables

\({v}_{i}^{4}\)

Air temperature (°C)

\({v}_{i}^{5}\)

Wind direction (°N)

\({v}_{i}^{6}\)

Wind speed (m/s)

\({v}_{i}^{7}\)

Direct normal irradiance, DNI (Wh/m2)

\({v}_{i}^{8}\)

Global horizontal irradiance, GHI (Wh/m2)

\({v}_{i}^{9}\)

Pressure (mB)

Lag variables

\({v}_{i}^{10}\)

PV power output at the same hour on the previous day (kW)