Extended Abstract: Quantum-Accelerated Transient Stability Assessment for Power Systems

Quantum machine learning (QML) methods possess the potential to address transient stability assessment (TSA) in power systems characterized by high computational complexity. In this paper, we introduce a QML-based transient stability assessment method, designed to assess the stability of modern large-scale power systems. Initially, quantum principal component analysis (QPCA) is employed to extract the most crucial features of power systems with an exponentially speedup than traditional PCA. Subsequently, to project original data into a lower-dimensional space to utilize state-of-the-art quantum computing resources, an inner product computation method is developed in a quantum manner, requiring significantly fewer measurements. The inner product results serve as inputs of a viable variational quantum algorithm (VQA) for conducting TSA. Preliminary results have shown that the QML-based TSA method can successfully determine system stability, with more details provided in the full paper. The reduced computational complexity provided by QML enables faster, potentially online analysis for TSA, thereby taking proactive action to prevent system failure.