Efficient use of wind power engineering in Russian agriculture

The most promising autonomous wind power plants with various types of redundancy are presented, it is found that their efficiency, in addition to the energy characteristics of the wind, is influenced by the graphs of the electrical load, as well as the duration of continuous periods of wind at a given speed. The analysis of the features of the use of renewable energy sources in agriculture and the identification of problems and prospects for their use for power supply. The article examines wind farms as the most suitable for commercial use. The features of wind energy that contribute to the use of wind power plants in agriculture are considered. Thus, the electrical load is more dispersed than in industry, which is more consistent with the dispersal of wind energy. Most agricultural consumers allow longer power outages than industrial consumers, therefore they are less demanding on the regularity of energy supply. The installed capacity of agricultural consumers is several orders of magnitude lower than in industry, which makes it possible to get by with less powerful wind farms. Recently, especially in the last two decades, consumers of electricity appeared in the agriculture of Russia without a centralized power supply. These are small farms and other similar farms. Given the high cost of transmission lines, this feature enhances the competitiveness of autonomous wind farms. The statistical characteristics of the distribution of wind speeds for a specific region of Russia were obtained, the comparison of which with the requirements of agricultural electricity consumers made it possible to determine the most effective operating wind speed and give recommendations on the use of wind power plants in agriculture. The wind farms have passed production checks at the recommended rural facilities and have shown a fairly high competitiveness.