Recent Research in Solar Forecasting

Exploring the intersection of computer vision and renewable energy for solar irradiance forecasting using Vision Transformers

Article Jul 2025

Vision Transformers for Estimating Irradiance Using Data Scarce Sky Images

David Hamlyn • Sunny Chaudhary • Tasmiat Rahman
DOI: 10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100560
Energy and AI Paper Cover
Energy and AI
Vision Transformers for Estimating Irradiance
D. Hamlyn et al.
10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100560
Article 2026

GateFormer: Forecast-space decomposition for intra-hour solar irradiance prediction from sky images

David Hamlyn • Sunny Chaudhary • Jonathon Hare • Tasmiat Rahman
DOI: 10.1016/j.egyai.2026.100917
GateFormer graphical abstract showing the vision transformer, dual forecast decoders and gating mechanism
Energy and AI
GateFormer: Forecast-space decomposition for solar irradiance prediction
D. Hamlyn et al.
10.1016/j.egyai.2026.100917

Presentations

Oral Presentation Oct 2026

Dual Branch Forecasters

2nd International All-Sky Imager (ASI) Workshop 2026
DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Oldenburg, Germany

David Hamlyn
Workshop Website ASI Workshop Post on LinkedIn
Participants at the 2026 All-Sky Imager workshop outside DLR in Oldenburg, Germany
Oral Presentation Jul 2026

Specialised Pathways for Solar Irradiance Forecasting

SETCON 2026

David Hamlyn • Sunny Chaudhary • Tasmiat Rahman
University Research Record
Oral Presentation Apr 2025

Estimating Diffuse Irradiance Using Sky Images and Augmented Data

PVSAT 2025 (Institute of Physics Solar-Energy Conference)

David Hamlyn
Conference Website
PVSAT 2025 Conference