Photovoltaic abnormal data cleaning based on fuzzy clustering-quartile algorithm

The irradiance-power curve is an important basis for examining the operating status of photovoltaic power stations. In the actual operation process, sensor failure, abnormal communication and equipment damage will bring a large number of abnormal values to the output data of photovoltaic power plants. It will have a significant impact on a variety of applications based on photovoltaic output data. This paper analyzes the typical outliers on the irradiance-power curve and proposes a photovoltaic output data cleaning method based on fuzzy clustering algorithm and quartile algorithm. By comparing with the quartile method, it is proved that this method can effectively identify abnormal data when there are a large number of outliers in the photovoltaic output data.