In the medium and long term, electrical grids at all voltage levels will develop into grids dominated by power electronic systems.
These will be highly meshed and characterized by decentralized energy generation and storage with bidirectional power flow.
Construction of the High Power Grid Lab (HPGL) is expected to begin in 2026 once the planning phase has been completed. Once operational from 2030, it will represent a unique research and test infrastructure in Europe in the multi-MW medium-voltage range to research the system behavior of the electrical grid resources required for grid conversion, including their interaction with and on the power grid. This will be achieved by combining the real-time simulation of power grids in SEnSSiCC with the HPGL's multi-MW medium-voltage grid emulators to create a holistic Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) test environment.
The aim of the HPGL is to research new types of power-electronic grid equipment (e.g. grid couplings, power converters for DC grids) in an environment that reproduces the behavior of the real grid as accurately as technically possible.
Expertise am KIT
Electrotechnical Institute (ETI)
- LV and MV-PHIL emulators
- Real-time capable signal processing platforms
- Power electronic MV systems
Power grids
Institute for Electrical Energy Systems and High Voltage Technology (IEH)
- Electrical power supply systems and high-voltage engineering
- Modeling and operational management of grids
- HVDC grids and their interaction with the underlying AC grid
Grid simulation and automation
Institute for Automation and Applied Computer Science (IAI)
- Modeling, simulation, monitoring, analysis and automation of power grids
- Operation of the Smart Energy System Simulation and Control Center (SEnSSiCC)
- Data management
Power Hardware-in-the-Loop
Institute of Technical Physics (ITEP)
- Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Lab (PHIL), Digital Twins
- Grid control
- Superconducting technologies for energy transmission
