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Wind speed forecasting is a promising solution to improve the efficiency of energy utilization. In this study, a novel hybrid wind speed forecasting model is proposed. The whole modeling process of the proposed model consists of three steps. In stage I, the empirical wavelet transform method reduces the non-stationarity of the original wind speed data by decomposing the original data into several sub-series. In stage II, three kinds of deep networks are utilized to build the forecasting model and calculate prediction results of all sub-series, respectively. In stage III, the reinforcement learning method is used to combine three kinds of deep networks. The forecasting results of each sub-series are combined to obtain the final forecasting results. By comparing all the results of the predictions over three different types of wind speed series, it can be concluded that: (a) the proposed reinforcement learning based ensemble method is effective in integrating three kinds of deep network and works better than traditional optimization based ensemble method; (b) the proposed ensemble deep reinforcement learning based wind speed prediction model can get accurate results in all cases and provide the best accuracy compared with sixteen alternative models and three state-of-the-art models. • The EWT method is used to preprocess the original wind speed data. • Reinforcement learning is used to combine three kinds of deep learning networks. • A new ensemble deep reinforcement learning model is proposed to predict wind speed. • The proposed model is compared with nineteen mainstream forecasting models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wind power has the most potential for clean and renewable energy development. Wind power not only effectively solves the problem of energy shortages, but also reduces air pollution. In recent years, wind speed time series analyses have increasingly become a concern of administrators and power grid dispatchers searching for a reasonable way to reduce the operating cost of wind farms. However, analyzing wind speed in detail has become a difficult task, because the traditional models sometimes fail to capture data features due to the randomness and intermittency of wind speed. In order to analyze wind speed series in detail, in this paper, an effective and practical analysis system is studied and developed, which includes a data analysis module, a data preprocessing module, a parameter optimization module, and a wind speed forecasting module. Numerical results show that the wind time series analysis system can not only assess wind energy resources of a wind farm, but also master future changes of wind speed, and can be an effective tool for wind farm management and decision-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]