Gogoro and Enel X Taiwan partnership

In 2022, Gogoro and Enel X Taiwan’s VPP pilot demonstrated that the Gogoro Network could safely pause charging if there was a grid imbalance or provide energy back to the grid as demand required. The Gogoro Network performed these services without causing any interruptions to Gogoro Network battery-swapping customers, demonstrating that the network is an ideal resource to support Taiwan’s energy transition. Now, in 2023, Gogoro is enrolling up to 2,500+ battery swapping stations across 1,000+ locations into Enel X Taiwan's VPP.

In face of the increasing proportion of renewable energy and electric vehicles, Virtual Power Plants(VPP) are an excellent solution to cope with the intermittency and volatility of renewable energy and the sudden increase in electricity demand. Gogoro’s battery swapping stations (GoStation) serve as one of the energy resources in our VPP.

 

The Gogoro Network when integrated with the Enel X VPP could safely pause charging if there was a grid imbalance, or provide energy back to the grid when needed. This has the same effect as bringing new energy generation online to meet demand. Once the grid needs passes, Enel X’s VPP sends a signal to the Gogoro Network to safely restore to normal grid consumption.

Gogoro’s participation in Enel X Taiwan’s VPP has no impact on the riders. The only impact is that now riders have an even better reason to choose electric scooters because the battery-swapping stations support the energy transition and a cleaner environment for us and the next generation. It means a better reason to adopt electric scooters!

“We are entering a new era of smart energy infrastructure, and by integrating the Gogoro Network with the Enel X Virtual Power Plant (VPP) in Taiwan we are providing a new energy resource. It is the first time this technology has been deployed this way in the world, and it creates a new Gogoro revenue stream beyond mobility” said Horace Luke, founder, and CEO of Gogoro. “We have always believed that time-shifting energy was key to enabling the sustainable transformation of energy and transportation, and Gogoro continues to be a key part of these advancements. Together, the Gogoro community is contributing to Taiwan’s net-zero targets by helping to integrate more variable power generation resources onto the grid. Today, when the energy grid begins to max out, we can dynamically pause our energy usage or provide energy back to the grid while continuing to operate our battery swapping service independently as needed.”

 

 

“The commercial expansion of the Gogoro and Enel X pilot program to more than 1,000 battery swapping locations highlights a significant step in our ancillary service to increase energy use efficiency. It is also an essential element in the development of large uptakes of renewable energy in the global electricity industry and a positive demonstration of how businesses like Gogoro can proactively participate in Taiwan’s energy market at scale,” said the president of Taiwan Power Company (TPC), Yao-Ting Wang.