Multi-step short-term solar energy forecasting using Fourier-enhanced BiLSTM and neural additive models
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Abstract
Accurate short and medium-term forecasting is important for mitigating uncertainty and enabling efficient energy grid management. While traditional machine learning and deep learning models offer improved accuracy, they often lack interpretability. To address these limitations, this study proposes a hybrid forecasting framework, called FNO-BiLSTM-NAM, that combines a Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) to extract spectral–temporal features, a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network to model sequential dependencies, and a Neural Additive Model (NAM) to quantify feature-wise contributions. The model incorporates multi-scenario forecasting to support energy operators under different uncertainty levels. Experiments conducted on a dataset from a 5 MW PhotoVoltaic (PV) plant demonstrate the superiority of the model. For a 6-hour forecast horizon, the proposed FNO-BiLSTM-NAM model achieved a mean absolute error of 0.0712 and mean squared error of 0.0092, outperforming benchmark models across short- to medium-term horizons. Furthermore, the spectral analysis of the FNO revealed low-pass filtering behavior, highlighting the ability of the model to suppress high-frequency noise. Comparative experiments with five machine and deep learning baseline models confirm the robustness and generalization capacity of the framework. These results underscore the potential of the proposed model for enhancing PV energy forecasting accuracy while maintaining transparency across dynamic operating conditions. • Innovative preprocessing uses anomaly detection and SHAP feature engineering. • FNO–BiLSTM–NAM delivers highly accurate PV forecasting for a multi-step horizon. • Captures long- and short-term dynamics using a combination of FNO and BiLSTM. • Enables interpretability by isolating and quantifying each feature’s contribution. • Outperforms state-of-the-art forecasting methods across multiple error metrics.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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