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    From batteries to windfarms: Quantum optimisation solutions for the renewable sector

    Frazer-Nash, ORCA Computing and The Crown Estate looked at whether quantum optimisation can help renewable energy planning.

    Project data last updated 11 October 2026

    About this project

    Frazer-Nash Consultancy led the consortium with ORCA Computing, The Crown Estate and the NQCC. The project asked whether quantum computers could help with new computing problems in the renewable sector, from batteries to wind farms.

    It was one of 12 SparQ proof of concept projects announced in November 2024, which ran until the end of March 2025.

    Lead organisation

    Frazer-Nash Consultancy

    Company · Leatherhead

    KBR-owned Leatherhead consultancy that ran offshore wind farm optimisation on ORCA photonic hardware with The Crown Estate under NQCC SparQ.

    Partners (3)

    Funders

    • NQCC

      Research organisation · Harwell

    In the news

    Quantum Zeitgeist articles naming the lead organisation or partners. They may not be about this project.

    • A recap of the Quantum Software Lab's Quantum Fringe in Edinburgh

      · UK

      A recap of the Quantum Software Lab’s Quantum Fringe in Edinburgh, read on Quantum Zeitgeist

      The Quantum Software Lab (QSL) at the University of Edinburgh has become a globally recognized hub for creating software solutions, and with its strategic partnership with the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), now has more than 70 researchers. In three years, the QSL is poised to lead a

      Image © Quantum Zeitgeist

    • Anyon Computing quantum supercomputer

      Anyon Computing links quantum processors to GPUs with NVIDIA tech, read on Quantum Zeitgeist

      Anyon Computing unveiled a new open quantum control system built on NVIDIA NVQLink, designed so its microwave quantum control cluster and quantum processors join GPU and CPU compute nodes as co-processor nodes of a single supercomputing machine. The system will be open-sourced and serve as the contr

      Image © Quantum Zeitgeist

    • A complex optical setup is displayed on a dark table in a laboratory setting, dominated by green laser beams.

      How Do Photonic Quantum Computers Work?, read on Quantum Zeitgeist

      Photonic quantum computers encode a qubit in a single particle of light, steer it through a programmable maze of glass and count it with superconducting detectors, and the chips come off ordinary 300 millimetre semiconductor lines. As of mid-2026 no photonic platform has demonstrated a peer-reviewed

      Image © Quantum Zeitgeist

    All news for this project and its partners

    Sources

    1. NQCC: From batteries to windfarms (nqcc.ac.uk)
    2. NQCC: STFC Cross Cluster Proof of Concept SparQ quantum computing call (nqcc.ac.uk)
    3. NQCC: Collaborative R&D (SparQ proof of concept projects) (nqcc.ac.uk)
    4. Quantum Zeitgeist: 12 NQCC Quantum Computing Projects Awarded SparQ Funding (quantumzeitgeist.com)