Quantum-Enabled Distributed Transient Stability Assessment of Power Systems

Transient stability assessment (TSA) is an indis-pensable routine in power system operation and control. The increasing integration of distributed energy resources highlights the necessity of distributed transient stability assessment which can effectively capture the complicated stability characteristics of the entire power system without compromising the data privacy of individual local subsystems. This paper devises a quantum-enabled distributed transient stability assessment (Q-dTSA) method to enable data-driven transient stability prediction of power grids in a distributed, expressive and privacy-preserving manner. Our contributions include: 1) A quantum federated learning (QFL) architecture, which enables local power grids to jointly realize the data-driven TSA for the entire system using shallow-depth quantum circuits; 2) A distributed quantum gradient descent (d-QGD) algorithm, which supports effective coordination between local subsystems to perform distributed training of the QNNs without leaking local power system in-formation. 3) Extensive experiments in real-scale power grids obtained from both noise-free simulators and noisy IBM quantum computers, which validate the accuracy, fidelity, and noise-resilience of Q-dTSA, as well as its superiority over centralized quantum computing algorithms.