Efficiency of alternative electric power industry for poultry farming

¹ All-Russian Research and Technological Poultry Institute (the Federal Science Center “VNITIP RAS”), Sergiev Posad, Russia
² Big Dutchmen LLC, Moscow, Russia
³ Rosinformagrotekh FSBSI, Pravdinsky Township, Russia
⁴ Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia
⁵ Smena Breeding and Genetic Center, village of Bereznyaki, Russia
⁶ Federal Science Center for Animal Husbandry named after Academy Member L.K. Ernst, Russia

^* Corresponding author: alexbd2006@mail.ru

Abstract

The growing poultry industry needs additional energy resources. To improve the efficiency of the energy systems in poultry farms (hereinafter referred to as PF), energy saving options were evaluated by modeling: using different tariffs, changing suppliers, changing the supply voltage, entering the poultry farms to the wholesale electricity and capacity market. Studies have shown that the poultry farms can radically reduce the cost per kilowatt-hour through receiving electricity from an alternative source that works on the saved gas.