Discover how Trane can help make your building more flexible, efficient and responsive to the grid. Flexible energy management is changing how commercial buildings use electricity.
Rather than treating energy use as fixed, building owners can now adjust flexible loads such as HVAC, water heating and electric vehicle charging to reduce costs, support grid reliability and improve resilience.
As utility services, pricing structures and grid conditions become increasingly complex, buildings have an opportunity to respond more intelligently and create value through this flexibility. This is where Demand Side Management (DSM), Demand Response (DR) and Flexible Load Management (FLM) work together.
DSM provides a long-term foundation through greater efficiency, smarter controls and operational improvements. DR adds short-term, event-driven actions that reduce or shift loads during periods of grid stress or high costs.
FLM brings these strategies together through real-time, grid-interactive control, allowing buildings to continuously adjust energy consumption in response to changing conditions.
