Time series Foundation Models based on Physics-Informed Synthetic Histories for Cold-Start Photovoltaic Forecasting
At commissioning time, Photovoltaic (PV) operators must forecast production before target-site observations are available, limiting the direct use of standard supervised forecasters. This cold-start setting is addressed with a zero-shot pipeline that generates a synthetic production history from plant metadata and meteorological covariates, enabling time-series foundation models (TSFMs) to forecast through inference-time conditioning. Five TSFMs are benchmarked against classical baselines under strict Cold-Start Baseline, Real Feedback, and Self-Forecast Feedback strategies. The evaluation spans $440$ PV sites across four datasets and diverse climate regimes. Covariate-aware foundation models outperform baselines by approximately $1.7-2\times$: TabPFN-TS achieves the lowest error under Real Feedback (MAE $0.514$, RMSE $0.721$ $kWh$ ${kWp}^{-1}$ ${d}^{-1}$), while Chronos-2 is most robust under Self-Forecast Feedback. Performance is largely insensitive to the synthetic-history source, indicating that accuracy is driven more by the availability of plausible temporal context than by the specific generator.
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