Solar-based energy is becoming one of the most promising sources for producing power for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Energy production based on solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has gained much attention from researchers and practitioners recently due to its desirable characteristics. However, the main difficulty in solar energy production is the volatility intermittent of photovoltaic system power generation, which is mainly due to weather conditions. For the large-scale solar farms, the power imbalance of the photovoltaic system may cause a significant loss in their economical profit. Accurate forecasting of the power output of PV systems in a short term is of great importance for daily/hourly efficient management of power grid production, delivery, and storage, as well as for decision-making on the energy market. The aim of this chapter is to provide reliable short-term forecasting of power generation of PV solar systems. Specifically, this chapter presents a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based deep learning approach for forecasting power generation of a PV system. This is motivated by the desirable features of LSTM to describe dependencies in time series data. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated using data from a 9 MWp grid-connected plant. Results show promising power forecasting results of LSTM.

Air quality management and monitoring are vital to maintaining clean air, which is necessary for the health of human, vegetation, and ecosystems. Ozone pollution is one of the main pollutants that negatively affect human health and ecosystems. This paper reports the development of an unsupervised and efficient scheme to detecting anomalies in unlabelled ozone measurements. This scheme combines a Deep Belief Networks (DBN) model and a one-class support vector machine (OCSVM). The DBN model accounts for nonlinear variations in the ground-level ozone concentrations, while OCSVM detects the abnormal ozone measurements. The performance of this approach is evaluated using real data from Is`ere in France. We also compare the detection quality of DBN-based detection schemes to that of deep stacked auto-encoders, Restricted Boltzmann Machinesbased OCSVM and DBN-based clustering procedures (i.e., Kmeans, Birch and Expectation Maximization). The results show that the developed strategy is able to identify anomalies in ozone measurements.