Taipei, September 12, 2025 –Enel X Taiwan has been honored with two major sustainability awards, the Gold Award at the Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Awards and the Silver Award at the Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards for its initiative “Uniting One Thousand Battery Swapping Stations to Reinforce Grid Resilience.” The recognition highlights Enel X Taiwan’s leadership in advancing the energy transition and promoting sustainable innovation.
This year marked Enel X Taiwan’s debut at the Asia Pacific Sustainability Action Awards, winning the Gold Award, and the company’s second consecutive year in the Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards. The Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards attracted over 500 entries, evaluated against three key dimensions: environmental sustainability, social inclusion, and economic development. Enel X Taiwan distinguished itself with its innovative solution in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) category for its innovative approach to energy management.
Roger Chen, Head of Enel X Taiwan, said at the 2025 SDG Asia Opening Ceremony and Awards Ceremony on September 11, “Our collaboration with Gogoro marks the world’s first commercial deployment that integrates a Virtual Power Plant with a battery-swapping energy network. This milestone demonstrates the potential of enabling distributed energy resources to provide ancillary services to the grid, while showcasing the tremendous potential of electric vehicles and their infrastructure in supporting grid resilience. We would like to dedicate this honor to Gogoro and Taiwan Power Company, and all partners, both domestic and international, who made this achievement possible.”
In 2024, over 1,000 Gogoro Network battery-swapping stations were successfully integrated into Enel X Taiwan’s Virtual Power Plant, joining Taipower’s Energy Trading Platform to enhance grid stability. By leveraging real-time data monitoring, IoT technologies, and a robust platform, Enel X Taiwan processes around ten thousand data points per second to ensure that these stations can respond instantly to grid demands when needed.
When aggregated, Gogoro’s battery-swapping stations, distributed across Taiwan, demonstrate the power of collective action, effectively helping to maintain grid frequency. In 2024, through Enel X Taiwan’s Virtual Power Plant, Gogoro’s battery-swapping stations provided 10.5 MW of frequency regulation reserve capacity and supported the grid for over 119 low-frequency events.
Henry Chiang, Interim CEO of Gogoro said, “Gogoro has continued to play a key role in driving innovation throughout the process of advancing mobility electrification, and our 650,000 users are important contributors to Taiwan’s net-zero transition. We are honored to be recognized by the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Action Awards together with Enel X Taiwan. Looking ahead, Gogoro will continue collaborating with partners across sectors to deliver forward-looking energy solutions and realize the vision of sustainable energy and mobility.”
Daniele Andreoli, Head of Enel X APAC, said, “Our mission is to promote a society that is decarbonized, electrified and ready to actively participate in the power system. Demand flexibility has proven to be critical in enabling the energy transition. By leveraging Demand Response, energy users not only unlock multiple benefits from existing assets but also make meaningful contributions to sustainability targets.”
Chen further explained, “Sustainability equals competitiveness. As companies face cost pressures from tariffs, carbon taxes, and electricity price fluctuations, adopting a sustainability-driven approach to energy management that creates shared value for society will help them stand out while gaining both environmental and financial returns. Looking ahead, we anticipate the development of more diversified power trading products enabling broader participation from more resources. Together with industry, the Energy administration, and Taipower, we will continue to strengthen grid resilience and accelerate the renewable energy transition.”
