A Hybrid Approach for Short-Term Forecasting of Wind Speed

Table 1

Hourly forecasting performance analysis.

Method	Model errors	Mins data		Hours data
		1 step	6 steps	1 step	6 steps
EMD-AR [23]	MAE (m/s)	0.022	0.43	0.02	0.48
	MAPE (%)	6.2	31.36	5.8	34.19
EMD-LSSVM [22]	MAE (m/s)	0.018	0.49	0.019	0.52
	MAPE (%)	4.6	34.45	4.8	37.49
EMD-LSSVM-AR	MAE (m/s)	0.012	0.39	0.016	0.42
	MAPE (%)	2.8	28.25	3.2	31.19