The Microgrid Research and Experimentation Platform is a research infrastructure operated by the Center for Energy Technology for the investigation and development of innovative operating concepts for so-called microgrids - local energy systems that can be operated autonomously and without coupling to the public supply grid. The aim of MIGRO is to research pioneering approaches to integrated power supply and to validate them on an experimental scale over a longer period of time and in realistic usage scenarios.
One of the first concrete investigations is concerned with the charging of electric vehicles in off-grid operation. The feasibility of this depends on real-life application scenarios, in particular commuter or employee parking spaces as well as parking areas with longer parking times for electric vehicles, for example at universities, authorities or companies.
The focus is on the question of what usage behavior occurs in such scenarios and how the system components - in particular generation, storage and charging infrastructure - must be designed to enable an efficient, stable and sustainable energy supply that is as grid-independent as possible. The long-term goal is to use the results from MIGRO to make a contribution to intelligent and sustainable system design and thus help to significantly reduce the need to expand the public energy infrastructure for the charging park use case or, ideally, to avoid it altogether.
