1^st Renewable Energy Forecasting Industry Guideline: IEA Wind Recommended Practice for the Implementation of Renewable Energy Forecasting Solutions

This poster presents an introduction to the 1st renewable energy forecasting industry guideline, the IEA Wind Recommended Practice for the Implementation of Renewable Energy Forecasting Solutions (short IEA-RP) [1]. The purpose of the IEA-RP is to encourage both end-users and forecast service providers to standardize practices and components that are common to all forecasting solutions in order to achieve optimal forecast benefit for user’s applications. The guideline is also intended to serve as a reference on state-of- the-art industry practices for forecast service providers new to the market or those wanting to evolve to a new level of service.
Example evaluation tools are also made available under open source licenses for testing and further development of forecast solution evaluation.