A comparative study of LSTM neural networks in forecasting day-ahead global horizontal irradiance with satellite data

•Evaluation of LSTM deep neural networks for irradiance forecasting.•New experimental framework including virtual PV site construction.•Approximation of GHI readings using satellite images.•Large-scale benchmark of forecasting methods across 21 geo-locations. Accurate forecasts of solar energy are i...

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