Abstract: There are abundant wind power sources in China. But, so far, the exploring of wind power forecasting is still weak, and there is almost no objective and quantitative forecasting method available in China. Actually, wind power forecasting means to accurately predict wind speeds and directions in wind farms, and further to forecast wind power. In this paper, we briefly introduce several types of wind power forecasting models, such as statistics, dynamics, downscaling, ensemble wind power forecasting models, and wind power production forecasting models. Meanwhile, we simply introduce wind power prediction verification and user-friendly forecasting platform's construction.

Key words: wind power, forecasting method, numerical model, verification, prediction platform