WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems
Print ISSN: 1790-5060, E-ISSN: 2224-350X
Volume 16, 2021
Technical and Economic Study of Powering Poultry Farm in Egypt using PV-Biomass on-grid Energy Generation System: Case Study
Authors: T. A. Boghdady, Ali J. Alamer,
Mina M. Yousef, Ahmed M. Elshafee,
M. A. Mostafa Hassan, A. Monem Seif
Abstract: The main goal of this work is to find economical alternative energy supply solution for poultry industry
in Egypt. By studying the economic feasibility of using hybrid renewable energy resources as main source of power
for existing poultry farm in Egypt to reduce existing operational cost of energy and add resilience and reliability
dimensions for the operation of poultry farm in rural locations. In addition to reducing the environmental impact of
using poultry litter in its fundamental form. This hybrid system connected to grid is used in the company to avoid
instability problem in which the company suffered when they applied biomass energy source as main power source
to their farm in Lebanon. The grid will be used as energy storage during the excess energy production form the
hybrid system and to add some resilience and reliability dimensions to the hybrid system to prevent instability to
the farm ‘s grid due to the high penetration of renewable energy. The economic feasibility is evaluated of this
configuration using HOMER versus different configurations and sizes for these systems including the existing
situation of depending only on grid as main source of energy. The results showed that the best configuration is 400
kW biomass generator, and 500 kW PV plant will satisfy the average demanded load of 9660 kWh daily with using
the grid as backup energy source. The cost of energy for this configuration will be 0.0894 $/kWh which is lower
than continuing existing situation depending on the grid as main source of power in which its Cost of Energy (COE)
will reach during the lifetime of the project to 0.184 $/kWh due to the increase in COE in Egypt by 8%.
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Pages: 67-77
DOI: 10.37394/232016.2021.16.7
WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5060 / 2224-350X, Volume 16, 2021, Art. #7