Domain-Adapted Power Curve for Cross-Farm Applications

Abstract:The wind energy industry relies on accurate power curve models to make power forecast, evaluate turbine performance, quantify upgrade, or support site-planning decisions. In this paper, we focus on site-planning power curves, i.e., we investigate how power curve models trained using turbine data on an operating wind farm can be transferred to a new, undeveloped farm. The traditional wisdom in the wind energy literature relies on distance, layout, or terrain characteristics for making cross-farm power curve transfer. Through the lens of domain adaptation, we propose a more reliable transfer learning approach for cross-farm power curve modeling. In the cross-farm applications, a domain is specified by the temporal environmental variates and spatial terrain variables. Domain adaptation is to find a capable similarity metric to adapt the domain on the new farm to that on the existing farm. Empirical results show that our domain adapted power curve consistently outperforms competing approaches by an appreciable margin for site-planning power predictions.

Applications (stat.AP); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

arXiv:2607.19744 [stat.AP]

(or arXiv:2607.19744v1 [stat.AP] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.19744 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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