One site. One system.
A microgrid is a local energy network that connects multiple grid connections belonging to a single company and manages them as one system. Production hall, warehouse, car park, office: each with its own connection, but operated as a whole.
Rather than treating each connection in isolation, a microgrid distributes available capacity dynamically across your site. If the warehouse has headroom on Thursday while the production hall is running flat out, the system shifts that capacity to where it’s needed. Within seconds.
The capacity is there. You just can't reach it.
Most companies with multiple buildings on one site work with fixed power blocks per connection. Each connection has a separate contract, a separate limit. As if every building were on its own island.
The result: one connection sits at 95% while another runs at 12%. Total capacity across the site is more than enough. But the system doesn’t know that spare room exists.
hitting its peak limit. No room for an extra charger or machine.
200 metres away. 88% of the connection sitting idle.
Three developments that make a microgrid worth considering
Electrification is outgrowing your connection
Every heat pump, charger or electric machine increases power demand. Applying for a new connection takes years in congested areas. A microgrid gets more out of what you already have.
On-site generation is growing, but less predictable
Solar panels produce, but not always when you need it. A battery helps, but only if the system knows what’s happening across all connections at once.
Your energy system is too complex for standalone controls
Three connections, each with solar, a battery, chargers and a dynamic energy contract: that’s thousands of decisions per day. Which battery do you charge when? Which charger gets priority? A microgrid automates those calls based on real-time data.
Same connections. Completely different outcome.
Two layers. One coordinated system.
A microgrid doesn’t work because you drew your buildings on a site map. It works because there’s software running that continuously forecasts, optimises and redistributes power.
Local EMS
Behind the meter, per connection
The local EMS optimises each connection individually. It forecasts consumption and generation 48 hours ahead and controls batteries, chargers, solar panels and flexible loads based on energy prices, weather and asset status. The contracted capacity is the boundary it works within.
CEMS
Across all connections, site-wide
The Central EMS coordinates every connection on your site. It distributes import and export capacity dynamically, receives requests from local EMS instances for additional power, and allocates it where headroom exists.
Three connections: 50, 50 and 100 kW. The production hall needs 120 kW. The CEMS sees connection A has 15 kW to spare and connection B has 5 kW. Those 20 kW are shifted across immediately.
No headroom anywhere? The local EMS curtails automatically — the system never exceeds technical limits.
What makes Tibo's microgrid software different?
Most EMS solutions optimise per connection. That works, until you have several. Tibo is built to manage connections as a whole, with an architecture that scales as your site changes.
From separate connections to one microgrid.
Discovery
Which connections are in place? Which assets? Where is the spare capacity? Using your data, we build a Digital Twin of the energy system across your site.
Simulation
With the Digital Twin, we run scenarios: which combination of controls and distribution yields the most? You see the result before anything goes live. No surprises.
Live
The microgrid goes operational. The software coordinates all connections in real time: capacity is distributed dynamically, peaks are shaved, every connection is continuously protected.
Ongoing
New building? Additional generation or a battery? We adjust the configuration. The microgrid scales with your site, without starting over.
Frequently Asked Questions
A microgrid isn’t a theoretical concept. It’s a working configuration that determines whether your site operates as a whole or as separate islands.
