WPBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Wind Power Forecasting
cs.LG, cs.AI
Submitted: 2026-09-21
Updated: 2026-09-21
Comments: Accepted by ICDE 2027
Code: https://github.com/4castRenewables/climetlab-plugin-a6
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The gist: Accurate, reliable, and deployable wind power forecasting is critical for power system dispatch, renewable energy integration, and electricity market operations.
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Abstract
Accurate, reliable, and deployable wind power forecasting is critical for power system dispatch, renewable energy integration, and electricity market operations. Progress in this field hinges on the ability to empirically and comprehensively benchmark forecasting methods. Yet existing benchmarks fall short of supporting systematic evaluation in four key aspects: 1) limited coverage of wind power scenarios across turbine scale, variable composition, and spatial structure; 2) incomplete coverage of forecasting model families; 3) evaluation metrics misaligned with wind power requirements; and 4) limited structure-aware diagnostics beyond individual temporal patterns. To address these limitations, we propose WPBench, a comprehensive, fair, and extensible benchmark for wind power forecasting. WPBench integrates 26 public datasets organized by turbine scale and variable composition, spanning single-turbine, multi-turbine, univariate, and multivariate settings. Under unified processing, training, and evaluation protocols, it benchmarks 19 representative models covering traditional methods, deep temporal models, spatio-temporal models, and foundation models. Beyond point-wise errors, WPBench assesses forecast-curve fidelity and computational efficiency, and delivers structure-aware diagnostics across temporal, variable-dependency, and spatial-dependency perspectives. Together, these capabilities enable systematic model comparison across diverse wind scenarios and provide a reusable platform for future research.
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