WISER and E.ON Advance Energy Demand Forecasting with Quantum Machine Learning

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WISER and E.ON completed a research collaboration exploring hybrid quantum machine learning approaches for electricity demand forecasting.

The project evaluated quantum models using an anonymized dataset of 103 residential customers on both simulators and real quantum hardware.

Researchers found that projected quantum kernel models improved forecasting accuracy against selected classical baselines under near-term quantum computing conditions.

Press release – The Washington Institute for STEM, Entrepreneurship and Research (WISER) announces the successful completion of a research collaboration with E.ON on energy demand forecasting using quantum machine learning. The joint project, published on arXiv, explores two hybrid quantum-classical approaches for forecasting correlated electricity consumption time series, Kernelized Quantum Reservoir Computing with Repeated Measurement (KQRC-RM), and a Projected Quantum Kernel Gaussian Process (QGP).