The electric grid is rapidly changing, as concerns about climate change and renewable resources increase. Intermittent solar and wind resources need to be stored when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. Buildings that have the ability to store energy and the agility to modify operational processes will have an advantage to help owners partner with local utilities and to provide energy storage assets to help support and meet their financial and sustainability goals. Trane® Energy Storage Solutions can help.
Your Energy Storage Partner
Leveraging Trane energy storage technologies can help improve how power supply is managed, creating a more resilient energy system by increasing your building's energy agility for greater sustainability and profitability, while reducing grid dependency. Trane offers a number of energy storage solutions to help our customers meet their objectives. Solutions include thermal energy storage (ice or chilled water storage), batteries, and industrial process and flow management solutions.
With growing industry pressure to de-carbonize, energy storage can make the difference for you. Thermal energy storage works like an HVAC “battery" for your building. It can store and recover thermal energy, charging and discharging depending on building operation, utility rates/programs or availability of renewable resources to optimize your savings, while increasing your sustainability.
Decarbonize
Decarbonize with energy storage! Thermal energy storage can increase the dispatchability of on or off-site renewables, which can help you with net-zero energy designs while meeting renewable energy targets.
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Lower utility bills
Energy storage can save you money on utility bills. With thermal energy, store a portion of your cooling requirements to off-peak and you can reduce more expensive peak electricity charges. In some markets, you may even get paid to free up more power on the grid!
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Resiliency
Optimize building operations and energy usage by adapting to changing grid conditions. With thermal energy storage, you can have extra cooling on stand-by during chiller maintenance or for a quick cool down.
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The Voice of Experience
Thermal Energy Storage solutions are some of the most sustainable forms of energy storage. Trane is proud to have delivered more than 1 gigawatt of ice-based thermal energy storage worldwide.
Explore our thermal energy storage offerings below
See how you can optimize your HVAC system:
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Next Gen: CALMAC Model C Energy Storage Tanks
Developed in response to customer requests for more convenient siting
of energy storage tanks, these second-generation tanks offer multiple
sizing options. Benefits:They can be bolted to each other which
eliminates most external piping and results in a 20 percent smaller
footprint requirement and more siting arrangement flexibility, cutting
installation cost and time of installation. Ideal for: Larger
commercial and institutional buildings.
Our high-quality and pioneering approach to incorporating thermal
energy storage into a full chiller plant system, quickly made the
classic Model A energy storage tank the "gold standard" for
the thermal energy storage industry after its 1979 introduction.
Benefits: Connects individually to distribution piping
Ideal for: Smaller installations
Trane offers a portfolio of systems that help you decarbonize, manage
energy costs and provide resiliency. These premier systems are built
on Trane expertise in chiller, controls, service and thermal energy storage.
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Trane System Completion Module
While thermal energy storage may provide an ideal solution, designing
a thermal energy storage system can require some special
considerations to maximize its value. Benefits: Provides a
streamlined user experience. Ideal for: Air-cooled chiller
plants. Engineers focused on reducing risk and engineering cost.
Building owners focused on simple monitoring solutions.
The CALMAC Glycol Management System (GMS) maintains the proper volume of coolant in a building circulating loop. Benefits: Get up and running quicker with easy solution mixing. Extend system performance and reduce downtime. Ideal for: Contractors and facility operators who need a simple, reliable coolant management system.
The CALMAC Plate Heat Exchanger can carefully transfer thermal energy between two dissimilar fluids. Benefits: Our product design can provide ease of maintenance and a closer temperature approach for higher efficiency. Ideal for: Applications where cross contamination is a critical concern or where space is constrained.
While it can be tempting to equate energy storage only with electrochemical batteries, thermal storage may be ideal for transforming your building.
Your building can store energy using two types of loads: thermal and
electrical. Try to store the energy in the same form that it will be
consumed since that is the more efficient and cost effective method.
In other words, use electric storage to meet electric loads and
thermal storage to meet thermal loads.
Learn more about Thermal and Battery Energy Storage