Research Article

A Comparison of Hour-Ahead Solar Irradiance Forecasting Models Based on LSTM Network

Table 6

The performance of Model II-BC and II-BD with 1–12-hour historical irradiance (from Lagging 1 to Lagging 12).

Model II-BCModel II-BD
RMSE (W/m2)nRMSE (%)RMSE (W/m2)nRMSE (%)

Lagging 1 (1 h)72.348637.587567.07634.8482
Lagging 2 (2 h)72.786537.810866.385134.4854
Lagging 3 (3 h)71.557337.16866.747134.6695
Lagging 4 (4 h)72.525837.666866.039834.2982
Lagging 5 (5 h)72.893737.853564.221733.3502
Lagging 6 (6 h)70.932236.830763.432832.9368
Lagging 7 (7 h)70.476136.589864.402533.4365
Lagging 8 (8 h)71.801237.273563.428532.927
Lagging 9 (9 h)71.427737.075862.95532.678
Lagging 10 (10 h)71.212336.962663.058832.7305
Lagging 11 (11 h)70.834436.768864.96533.7222
Lagging 12 (12 h)71.653437.197662.161832.2702