Comparison of two new ARIMA-ANN and ARIMA-Kalman hybrid methods for wind speed prediction

Wind speed prediction is important to protect the security of wind power integration. The performance of hybrid methods is always better than that of single ones in wind speed prediction. Based on Time Series, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Kalman Filter (KF), in the study two hybrid methods are proposed and their performance is compared. In hybrid ARIMA-ANN model, the ARIMA model is utilized to decide the structure of an ANN model. In hybrid ARIMA-Kalman model, the ARIMA model is employed to initialize the Kalman Measurement and the state equations for a Kalman model. Two cases show both of them have good performance, which can be applied to the non-stationary wind speed prediction in wind power systems. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.