Patent ID: 11900247
Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method for solar irradiation prediction for a power system, the method comprising:
capturing images of a sky region;
determining a time of day, date, or time of day and date;
predicting the solar irradiation on a solar plant for future times in response to the input of one of the images with a machine-trained deep network architecture, the deep network architecture having a convolutional network to which the images are input in sequence, a recurrent network receiving an output of the convolutional network, and a dense layer receiving an output of the recurrent network and the time of day, the date, or the time of day and the date for the predicting;
controlling the solar plant based on the predicted solar irradiation; and
estimating cloud speed, and wherein predicting comprises predicting with the future times limited by the cloud speed.