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arxiv: 2604.23524 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-26 · 📡 eess.SY · cs.SY

Physics-Aware LLM-Based Probabilistic Wind Power Scenario Generation under Extreme Icing Conditions

Lei Wang , Ying Zhang , Di Shi , Fei Ding This is my paper

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keywords wind power scenario generationextreme icing conditionsphysics-aware LLMcausal transformerSCADA modelingprobabilistic scenariospower system resilience
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A physics-aware LLM generates high-fidelity probabilistic wind power scenarios under extreme icing by enforcing physical constraints.

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The paper introduces a framework that uses large language models to create multiple possible wind power output paths when turbines experience severe icing. It merges real sensor data modeling with a causal transformer setup and adds rules during generation to respect power limits and change rates. Tests on actual wind farm records show the outputs closely follow the power losses and fluctuations seen in real extreme weather. This helps in preparing power grids for such events by providing realistic uncertainty estimates. The approach combines data-driven generation with physics to avoid unrealistic scenarios.

Core claim

The authors establish that their physics-aware LLM framework, which incorporates SCADA-based physical modeling, multimodal tokenization, and autoregressive causal Transformer training with physics-aware decoding, successfully produces diverse scenarios that match the icing-induced power degradation and temporal variability present in real wind turbine data, resulting in physically consistent and high-fidelity outputs for power system applications.

What carries the argument

The causal Transformer architecture with physics-aware decoding scheme that enforces rated power limits and ramping constraints while preserving stochastic diversity in the generated trajectories.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that combining SCADA physical models with multimodal tokenization and causal Transformer plus physics-aware decoding produces diverse scenarios that stay strictly within physical bounds without overfitting or overlooking unmodeled icing effects.

What would settle it

A test where generated scenarios are compared against power measurements from an independent icing event; if the degradation magnitudes or variability patterns deviate significantly from observed data, the claim would be falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.23524 by Di Shi, Fei Ding, Lei Wang, Ying Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: LLM-based Causal Transformer architecture for wind power view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Tokenization results for power, wind speed, and temperature. view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of LLM-generated wind power scenarios without view at source ↗
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Accurately characterizing wind power uncertainty under icing and post-disaster conditions remains a critical challenge for resilient power system operation. To address this issue, this paper proposes a physics-aware large language model (LLM) framework for probabilistic wind power scenario generation under extreme icing conditions. The proposed framework integrates supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)-based physical modeling, multimodal tokenization, and a causal Transformer architecture trained in an autoregressive manner. A physics-aware decoding scheme effectively enforces rated power limits and ramping constraints on the generated trajectories while preserving stochastic diversity. Case studies using real wind turbine data show that the proposed method reproduces icing-induced power degradation and temporal variability observed during extreme weather. The resulting scenarios are physically consistent and high-fidelity, thereby significantly enhancing resilience assessment and recovery planning in renewable-integrated power systems.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a physics-aware LLM framework for probabilistic wind power scenario generation under extreme icing conditions. It combines SCADA-based physical modeling with multimodal tokenization and a causal Transformer trained autoregressively, using a physics-aware decoding scheme to enforce rated power limits and ramping constraints while preserving diversity. Case studies on real wind turbine data claim to reproduce observed icing-induced power degradation and temporal variability, yielding physically consistent and high-fidelity scenarios that support resilience assessment in renewable power systems.

Significance. If the empirical claims are substantiated with rigorous validation, the work could advance uncertainty modeling for wind power under extreme weather, offering a hybrid physics-ML approach that improves scenario quality for power system planning and recovery. The use of real SCADA data and explicit constraint enforcement during generation are positive elements that align with needs in resilient grid operations.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (Case Studies): The central claim that the method 'reproduces icing-induced power degradation and temporal variability' and produces 'high-fidelity' scenarios is presented without any quantitative metrics (e.g., CRPS, RMSE, or coverage probabilities), error bars, statistical significance tests, or comparisons to baselines such as standard ARMA, GANs, or physics-only models. This absence prevents assessment of whether the generated scenarios match observed data beyond qualitative description.
  2. [§3.3] §3.3 (Physics-aware decoding): The decoding enforces only generic constraints (rated power limits and ramping), with no incorporation of icing-specific aerodynamics such as temperature-dependent lift loss, ice accretion rates, or blade roughness effects. Since these mechanisms are left entirely to the autoregressive Transformer, the physical consistency claim risks being limited to statistical reproduction of training events rather than true generalization to extreme icing physics.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §3] The abstract and methodology would benefit from explicit mention of the number of generated scenarios, training/validation split sizes, and the exact SCADA variables tokenized, to allow readers to gauge the scale and reproducibility of the experiments.
  2. [§4] Figure captions in the case studies section should include quantitative summaries (e.g., mean degradation percentage or variability range) to make visual comparisons with observed data more informative.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments identify key opportunities to strengthen the empirical validation and clarify the scope of the physics-aware components. We address each point below and outline targeted revisions.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Case Studies): The central claim that the method 'reproduces icing-induced power degradation and temporal variability' and produces 'high-fidelity' scenarios is presented without any quantitative metrics (e.g., CRPS, RMSE, or coverage probabilities), error bars, statistical significance tests, or comparisons to baselines such as standard ARMA, GANs, or physics-only models. This absence prevents assessment of whether the generated scenarios match observed data beyond qualitative description.

    Authors: We agree that the current case studies rely primarily on visual and descriptive comparisons of power degradation patterns from SCADA data. This limits the ability to rigorously quantify fidelity. In the revised manuscript we will add CRPS, RMSE, and coverage probability metrics with error bars, perform statistical significance tests against observed distributions, and include direct benchmark comparisons to ARMA, GAN-based generators, and physics-only models. These additions will be placed in an expanded §4 with new tables and figures. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.3] §3.3 (Physics-aware decoding): The decoding enforces only generic constraints (rated power limits and ramping), with no incorporation of icing-specific aerodynamics such as temperature-dependent lift loss, ice accretion rates, or blade roughness effects. Since these mechanisms are left entirely to the autoregressive Transformer, the physical consistency claim risks being limited to statistical reproduction of training events rather than true generalization to extreme icing physics.

    Authors: The physics-aware decoding enforces hard physical feasibility constraints (rated power and ramp rates) that are independent of the generative model and guarantee all trajectories remain operationally valid. The causal Transformer learns icing-induced degradation patterns directly from real SCADA trajectories that embed those effects. This hybrid design prioritizes enforceable constraints over explicit aerodynamic sub-models, which would require additional sensor data and physics solvers not available in standard SCADA streams. We will revise §3.3 to explicitly delineate the enforced constraints from the learned dynamics and add a limitations paragraph acknowledging that full aerodynamic modeling is outside the current scope. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: framework relies on external SCADA data and empirical validation

full rationale

The paper describes a composite architecture (SCADA physical modeling + multimodal tokenization + causal Transformer + physics-aware decoding) trained autoregressively on real wind turbine data. Case studies are presented as external validation that the outputs reproduce observed icing-induced degradation. No equation, definition, or self-citation is shown to make any claimed prediction equivalent to its own fitted inputs by construction. The physics-aware decoding step enforces only generic limits (rated power, ramping), which are independent constraints rather than a renaming or self-definition of the target icing statistics. This is the normal case of a data-driven method whose central claim rests on held-out empirical match rather than tautology.

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axioms (1)
  • domain assumption SCADA data and physical modeling accurately capture icing effects on wind turbines
    Invoked in the integration of physical modeling with the LLM framework.

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