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Long-Term Solar Irradiance Forecast Using Artificial Neural Network: Application for Performance Prediction of Indian Cities

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Engineering

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Solar radiation data is extremely useful for utilizing solar energy in applications like solar power plants and solar heating. As the fossil fuel resources are degrading, renewable sources of energy like solar energy can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Solar energy is also a clean form of energy. In this paper, we have made use of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Solar Radiation Prediction (SRP). The ANN network used is Feed Forward with Backpropagation (FFBP), Backpropagation being the learning algorithm. A three-layer network has been used with one hidden layer. The data used was from 67 cities in India, which was further divided in two sets, namely—training and testing. The testing data was not used to train the network. There were 19 input parameters for the network with one output parameter solar radiation.

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  1. Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India

    Hasmat Malik & Siddharth Garg

  2. ICE Division, NSIT Delhi, Dwarka, New Delhi, 110078, India

    Siddharth Garg

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  1. Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Hasmat Malik

  2. Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Smriti Srivastava

  3. National Institute of Technology, Puducherry, India

    Yog Raj Sood

  4. Perceiving Systems Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany

    Aamir Ahmad

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Malik, H., Garg, S. (2019). Long-Term Solar Irradiance Forecast Using Artificial Neural Network: Application for Performance Prediction of Indian Cities. In: Malik, H., Srivastava, S., Sood, Y., Ahmad, A. (eds) Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Engineering . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 697. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1822-1_26

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