The Multi-Good MicroGrid Laboratory (MG2Lab) is an experimental facility located in the Department of Energy buildings of Bovisa campus. It integrates various technologies for distributed energy generation and storage, constituting an active network that supplies heat, electricity, potable water and energy-related services to a variety of users (including electric vehicle charging), while minimizing operational costs.
Core mission of the MG2Lab is the development and on-field testing of predictive optimization algorithms for optimal planning of multi-good energy systems, to ensure their secure and efficient operation also when featuring a high penetration of renewable energy sources.
MG2Lab was built in collaboration with ENGIE-EPS and the activities include multiple industrial collaborations (Terna, FCA, BMW, TOTEM Energy).
Ongoing research activities are developed between GECOS and the Electrical Engineering Group of the Department of Energy.
Experimental rig:
Three photovoltaic fields installed on the roof of different campus buildings (total capacity 75 kW), a wind turbine and a micro CHP system
Programmable and non-programmable electric loads (water purifier, external lighting system, etc.)
Electric and thermal storage systems
A reversible power-to-hydrogen system for long-term energy storage
Charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles and electric bikes
An electric grid simulator, possibly acting also as virtual electric load, to study islanded mode operation


