{"id":3014,"date":"2020-08-08T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/?page_id=3014"},"modified":"2020-08-08T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T22:33:22","slug":"peer-irfan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/partners\/aresty-research-virtual-symposium-2020\/peer-irfan\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Irfan: Solar Irradiance and Power Forecasting in Piscataway, NJ Using Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2020\/08\/IrfanPeerPoster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2832 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2020\/08\/IrfanPeerPoster_thumbnail-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2020\/08\/IrfanPeerPoster_thumbnail-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2020\/08\/IrfanPeerPoster_thumbnail-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2020\/08\/IrfanPeerPoster_thumbnail-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2020\/08\/IrfanPeerPoster_thumbnail.png 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Solar Irradiance and Power Forecasting in Piscataway, NJ Using Data Science<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Irfan Peer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major:<\/strong> Computer Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>School affiliation:<\/strong> School of Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programs:<\/strong> Aresty Summer Science Program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other contributors:<\/strong> Ahmed Aziz Ezzat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> In the last decade, the US. Solar power capacity increased from just 1.2GW up to 70GW, supplying ~ 2.5% of the U.S. electricity demand. Despite the promise, solar energy still faces several technical challenges due to its intermittency and limited predictability. To ensure a reliable integration into the grid, power system operators need to accurately anticipate, ahead of time, how much sunlight will be there on a given timing on a given day, in turn helping them forecast how much solar energy can be produced. Motivated by that, this research is focused on developing an accurate, data-driven method to produce accurate short-term forecasts of solar irradiance and power at fine spatial and temporal resolutions (6-hours ahead, 10-min resolution, in Piscataway, NJ). Various statistical forecasting models have been formulated and tested using real-world irradiance data collected at the Energy Lab at Rutgers University. Our numerical experiments suggest that an autoregressive-based model, L-ARIMA, can achieve up to 97% and 94% improvement, in terms of forecast accuracy, relative to Neural nets and persistence forecasts, respectively. This work contributes to accurately characterizingthe variability of solar energy, one of the main challenges to boost its economic outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Solar Irradiance and Power Forecasting in Piscataway, NJ Using Data Science Name: Irfan Peer Major: Computer Engineering School affiliation: School of Engineering Programs: Aresty Summer Science Program Other contributors: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/partners\/aresty-research-virtual-symposium-2020\/peer-irfan\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":970,"featured_media":0,"parent":441,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-custom.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3014","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peer Irfan: Solar Irradiance and Power Forecasting in Piscataway, NJ Using Data Science - Senior Exhibits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nb-senior-exhibits\/partners\/aresty-research-virtual-symposium-2020\/peer-irfan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peer Irfan: Solar Irradiance and Power Forecasting in Piscataway, NJ Using Data Science - Senior Exhibits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Title: Solar Irradiance and Power Forecasting in Piscataway, NJ Using Data Science Name: Irfan Peer Major: Computer Engineering School affiliation: School of Engineering Programs: Aresty Summer Science Program Other contributors: &hellip; 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