In 2015, Gogoro proposed setting up a network of battery swap stations so riders of electric smart scooters wouldn’t have to worry about range on each charge. Today, the company operates thousands of power plants and has partnered with Enel X to make its network act as a virtual power plant in Taiwan.
Horace Luke, Founder and CEO of Gogoro, said: “This is the first time in the world that the technology has been deployed in this way, creating a new revenue stream for his Gogoro beyond mobility.”
The basic idea is that Gogoro’s battery hub dynamically pauses charging of docked batteries and returns stored energy to the grid when demand is high or an imbalance is detected. When the grid is level again, a signal is sent to his Gogoro Network to resume charging.
Gogoro and Enel X ran a pilot last year to test the setup and found that the network of battery exchange stations involved in the trial “successfully performed these services without causing disruption to Gogoro’s network of battery exchange customers. The network has proven to be an ideal one, a resource to support Taiwan’s energy transition.”
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Today, the partnership has announced the commercial deployment of nearly 1,300 GoStations as part of Enel X’s VPP in more than 500 locations across Taiwan. By mid-2023, that number is expected to exceed 2,500 in 1,000 locations, though it is unclear how this translates into total potential production capacity.
Enel X currently operates the largest virtual power plant in Taiwan, and such installations are expected to “coordinate the intermittency of large-scale renewable power plants” as the country moves to decarbonize energy generation. I consider it an important resource to help me.
In fact, Taiwan Power Corporation has predicted that the energy-sharing economy will be worth tens of billions of New Taiwan dollars, encouraging more companies to join the energy trading platform “through professional aggregators like Enel X.” I am calling to The future of renewable energy. ”
Although Taiwan is home to the majority of GoStation, Gogoro has networks operating in several other countries where the VPP model can be replicated, Gogoro has yet to reveal plans for a global expansion of the project. .
Source: Gogoro
