Yuval Boger interviews Corey O’Meara, Chief Quantum Scientist at E.ON Digital Technology. They discuss how E.ON’s five-person quantum team works with business units to find high-value use cases, especially where classical methods may hit bottlenecks in optimization and machine learning. Corey describes the company’s work on peer-to-peer energy trading and other grid-related applications, and shares his perspective on cloud access, hybrid deployment, and the accelerating progress toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Key takeaways
E.ON’s five-person quantum team only takes on optimization problems that are proven to scale exponentially with classical solvers like Gurobi; complexity, not data volume, is the deciding factor.
A peer-to-peer energy trading coalition formation project, done with Aqarios, LMU Munich, University of Oxford and DFKI, showed evidence of quantum scaling advantage on a D-Wave annealer, which the team considers one of the first business-relevant demonstrations of its kind.
Optimization runs on today’s hardware take minutes, not hours, and E.ON expects cloud access to quantum computers to remain sufficient for decades unless real-time grid balancing applications eventually require dedicated, owned hardware with SLAs.
The team is all physics and quantum computing PhDs who learn the energy domain after joining, and they believe five years ago was already late to start building this kind of internal quantum capability.
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· 📄 Full transcript: https://podcast.yboger.com/2026/07/06/corey-omeara-chief-quantum-scientist-at-e-on-digital-technology/
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