forecasting makes predictions up to a few days ahead, with the objective of scheduling various generation sources to meet the changing demand and to mitigate the short-term variability.

directives for low-carbon electricity generation consist of two closely interconnected parts: renewable energy and power systems. The renewable energy part consists of generating a sufficient amount of electrical power through carbon-neutral or carbon-negative technologies to serve the increasing energy demand. The power system part is concerned with the delivery and consumption (including storage) of that power, which requires upgrading of the current system in terms of both infrastructure and automation & control technology.

the two fields, namely, atmospheric science and power system engineering are jointly discussed with respect to how solar forecasting plays a part.

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