Quantum Energy, Powered by QuantyMize
Sustainable energy — it’s the future that we wish for.
Sustainable energy — it’s the future that we wish for.
This is a green world, with wind turbines and solar power taking free energy delivered by some of the most powerful forces on Earth. It’s a clean world — no fossil fuels to pollute the land we live on and the air we breathe every day. It’s a safe world, without any rising oceans destroying our homes or heatwaves keeping us inside during the peak of summer vacations.
It’s a future that seems to be drifting farther and farther away — but QuantyMize is reeling it back in, specifically with their work in bringing quantum computing to micro-grids.
The main problem with our energy right now is that it’s very convenient. I flick on a switch, and my room instantly brightens.
Demand for electricity is instantaneous. And so is supply.
In the past, that wasn’t a problem. Fossil fuels, like coal and natural gas, could be added on will. If demand ever rose, power plants just added more coal. If it slowed down, they reduced the amount of natural gas they burned. It was a controllable process.
Renewable energy isn’t as tame. It’s not always windy and it’s not always sunny. That means we don’t get to control when our wind turbines or our solar panels generate power. We need to have a way of storing this energy — to control it.
Batteries seem like the obvious solution, right? I can turn on my phone whenever I want — why can’t we do the same with our power grids?
Scale creates a new problem. Just like quantum computers, that might work fine with a few qubits get completely overrun with errors at just a hundred of them, power grids work on scales that require a completely new style of thinking.
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To last over decades and to constantly deliver power when its needed, batteries need to be very efficient — and they’re not. Right now, modern batteries can’t handle the intense workload of grid-scale electricity supply and demand.
Power grids at scale increase the complexity of battery management exponentially.
Exponential problems require exponential solutions.
Recently, QuantyMize announced their quantum powered solution, at the “Electricity and Energy” conference to reduce battery charge-discharge cycles in microgrids by 40%.
To do this, they used quantum annealing and developed a new Quadratic Uncontrained Binary Optimization model. In other words, they’ve figured out a clever way of turning the question of “When do I charge and discharge my battery?” into a quantum problem.
This quantum problem, solved with a quantum annealer, can be expanded into a range of renewable energy problems.
We can transition from micro-grid to smart grids.
We can speed up the timeline to retire our fossil fuel powerplants.
We can reach a sustainable future, powered by quantum computing.
A future that will become our present.
Links:
- https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/01/20/quantymize-adding-quantum-power-to-energy-management/
