Enterprise Quantum
for Energy & Utilities
Quantum computing is primed to unlock new chemical discoveries and efficiencies in energy production, accelerating our transition to a sustainable future. According to McKinsey, this could mean $100-300B in added value by 2035 for the chemicals sector alone.
Protecting Infrastructure from
Post-Quantum Cybersecurity (PQC) Threats
In 2021, a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline resulted in the shutdown of the largest fuel pipeline in the United States and a significant fuel shortage — all due to a single stolen password.
In the future, attackers will not even need to steal a password to compromise our vital infrastructure. Brute force attacks by powerful, fault-tolerant quantum computers will be able to break encryption protocols like RSA that secure our critical industrial systems. And, even before these fault-tolerant quantum computers arrive, there is a more urgent, near-term threat posed by heuristic algorithms running on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices.
Quantum-Ready Applications® for Energy and Utilities
Chemistry and Materials
Energy Production
Energy Distribution and Consumption
Chemistry and Materials
Energy Production
Energy Distribution and Consumption
Key Challenges
Zapata Solutions
Chemical and Materials Simulation
Deploy quantum chemical simulations to discover new alloys, catalysts, carbon capture solvents, battery materials, solar cell materials and other industrial chemicals.
Chemical Process Flow Optimization
Optimize the manufacturing process for chemicals and materials using Generator-Enhanced Optimization (GEO).
Nuclear Reaction Simulation
Design more efficient nuclear reactors by leveraging quantum computers to more accurately simulate nuclear reactions.
bp
The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a key algorithm for molecular simulation invented by Zapata founders. Over the last few years, we’ve worked with bp to explore how soon VQE can make an impact for quantum chemistry use cases, running tens of thousands of hours of computing on our software platform, Orquestra®.
Using Orquestra, we benchmarked VQE on various quantum hardware backends, and advanced proprietary techniques to make VQE more viable in the near-term. While a working enterprise-scale VQE solution is likely still years away, we discovered other use cases that could go into production much sooner. We have expanded beyond chemistry to include use cases in finance, cybersecurity, and logistics, and are accelerating BP’s Quantum Center of Expertise team using Orquestra.
Orquestra® Benefits for Energy and Utilities
Orchestration Across Environments
Leverage the quantum and other heterogenous classical compute resources best suited for your tasks, without getting locked into any one hardware platform. Deploy across hybrid backends at enterprise scale.
Data Management & Velocity
Store, retrieve, and analyze large datasets. Streamline data management from ingestion to export to accelerate data velocity.
Open Framework
Keep what works now. Integrate existing and future solutions with a framework optimized for extensibility, interoperability, and innovation.
Workflow Development and Deployment
One unified platform to go from research to development to deployment with extensible, scalable, modular workflows.
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