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Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) for Resilience

Unlock the potential of distributed energy resources and empower energy independence

Trane can help you develop a comprehensive strategy incorporating the optimal DERs to meet your requirements and goals.

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Distributed energy resources (DERs) are energy generation and storage technologies that can supplement or replace the power generation provided by central utilities. Stand-alone or connected through a microgrid, they can create organizational value by helping manage energy expenses, ensure reliability and accelerate sustainability efforts.

DERs technologies include:

  • Generators/gensets
  • Turbines
  • Fuel cells
  • Cogeneration or CHP
  • Renewables
  • Microgrid technology
  • Storage technologies 

Determine the Right Program Implementation and Financing Approach to Meet Your Needs

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    Having an always-available power source to ensure uptime and operational resilience

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    Utilizing lower carbon fuel sources independently from the utility grid to reduce your carbon footprint

  • Engineers are examining solar panels in an installation at a power plant where solar panels are installed using solar energy.

    Implementing a cogeneration program onsite to produce energy for your facility and minimize waste byproducts

  • Commercial buildings in Hongkong are low angle, China,

    Mitigating high costs of energy and avoiding peak demand charges

Benefits / Outcomes

DERs give you a way forward for energy self-sufficiency. They’re especially essential when expensive electricity, unreliable power infrastructure or carbon-intensive grid energy sources are at play.

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    Solve electric power access and reliability issues

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    Contribute to your sustainability initiatives

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    Optimize your energy cost management

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Budd Inlet Treatment Plant

The LOTT Cleanwater Alliance helps preserve and protect public health, the environment, and water resources by providing wastewater management services for approximately 90,000 people.
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Key Results

Trane partnered with LOTT Cleanwater Alliance to install a new cogeneration system and blower retrofit at the Budd Inlet Treatment Plant. The projects, funded with assistance from Puget Sound Energy conservation incentives totaling 70 percent of the project cost, were completed prior to established deadlines.

The cogeneration system provides sufficient heating energy to serve the site as a “district” heating plant. It eliminates the need to flare excess digester gas and greatly reduces annual emissions, including over 1,800 metric tons of carbon dioxide. The projects are saving more than 2.8 million kilowatt hours per year, enough to power more than 210 Thurston County homes.

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