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               Use case – 48: AI boosted Interpretable Renewable Energy

               Forecasting                                                                                          48-Alibaba










               Country: China

               Organization:  Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.

               Contact person: Yi Chen, (elaine.cy@ alibaba -inc .com, (86) 13605817921)


               48�1� Use case summary table


                Domain             Sustainable Energy; Power Systems
                The problem to be  Deliver interpretable accurate day ahead wind power and rooftop
                addressed          solar power forecasting to mitigate the intermittency and less reliability
                                   posed by booming capacity instalment of renewable energy.

                Key aspects of the   AI-based methods to deliver accurate and interpretable renewable
                solution           energy forecasting in an Asian city. The forecasting service covers all
                                   the wind plants and the rooftop photovoltaics within the area, alongside
                                   with an attribution analysis and error analysis.

                Technology         CNNs and Conventional Tree-based models with large-scale automatic
                keywords           feature augmentation, XAI

                Data availability   Private
                Metadata (type of   Tabular data, including measured power from wind turbines and solar
                data)              panels; numerical weather predictions.
                Model Training and  •   CNN and tree models.
                fine-tuning        •   Temporal convolutional architecture, (time series)
                                   •   Use the standard choices for optimizers.
                                   •   We use Ray Tune for hyper-parameter tuning.

                Testbeds or pilot   •   Electricity bureau in Chinese city.
                deployments        •   enewable Energy Forecasting System for State Grid Zhejiang
                                       Electric Power Co. LTD. , Jiaxing Branch

                                   https:// doi .org/ 10 .1609/ aaai .v37i13 .26853
                                   https:// arxiv .org/ abs/ 2402 .05823


               48�2� Use Case Description


               48�2�1� Description

               The booming capacity instalment of renewable energy such as wind power and photovoltaic
               power in the past years have posed tremendous challenges to power grid scheduling and




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