Abstract:In order to improve the accuracy of short-term photovoltaic power forecasting, a short-term photovoltaic power forecasting model based on support vector machine (SVM) optimized by coot optimization algorithm (COOT) is proposed. Firstly, the data of a photovoltaic power station in the first 21 days of April and July in 2017 are selected for simulation analysis, and the Pearson correlation coefficient between photovoltaic output power and each meteorological factor is calculated. And then the total solar radiation intensity, solar scattered radiation intensity, solar direct radiation intensity, component temperature and ambient temperature are selected as the input data of the prediction model, and the generated output of photovoltaic power station is used as the output data. Through simulation comparison with BP and SVM prediction models, it is obtained that for the data in April and July, the root mean square error, mean square error and mean absolute error of COOT-SVM prediction model are smaller than those of BP and SVM prediction models. Therefore, the proposed COOT-SVM prediction model can effectively improve the prediction accuracy of shortterm photovoltaic power generation, which has high engineering application value.