Table 1 Summary of related work in PV power forecasting.

From: Multi-label machine learning for power forecasting of a grid-connected photovoltaic solar plant over multiple time horizons

Reference

Method/algorithm

Dataset characteristics

Forecast horizon

Maneesha P. et al.7

Particle Swarm Optimization

PV forecasting data

4 different resolutions/horizons

Assouline et al.8

Support Vector Machine (SVM) with kernel technique

Urban Switzerland rooftop PV data

Not specified

Preda et al.9

SVM algorithm

Real sensor-generated data for hybrid renewable systems

Not specified

Muhammad W. et al.10

Extra Trees (ET) and Random Forest (RF)

Hourly PV power data

Hourly

Costa11

LSTM, CNN, and hybrid CNN-LSTM

Residential PV system data

Multiple horizons

Tovar et al.12

5-layer CNN-LSTM

Real PV data from Mexico

Not specified

Grzebyk et al.13

XGBoost

1,102 distributed PV systems

Hourly (daily resolution)

Ferlito et al.14

Various ML methods (complexity comparison)

PV forecasting data

Not specified

Ibtihal A.A. et al.15

Ensemble stacked ML (RF, GB, MLR)

Two PV systems (different sizes/ages)

Hourly

Asiedu et al.16

Single, ensemble, and hybrid ML models

Solar PV data

4 horizons (1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month)

Present study

Multi-label ML (LR, PR, ANN, DL, RF, GBT, DT, k-NN, SVM)

Real data from Cairo, Egypt - BAPV plant: 1-year, 5-minute intervals, meteorological + power data

Multiple (1 day, 1 week, 1 month)