Determination of optimal consumer group for electricity supply using solar-wind power plants

Introduction. Currently, the production and consumption of the electrical energy is constantly growing. One of the solutions to energy and environmental problems in Russia is harnessing of renewable resources, in particular, distributed-type solar-wind power plants. To reduce the generated electric power costs, it is worth to shift part of the energy to a combined solar-wind power station with the potential parallel operation with the central power supply system. Some options of supplying consumers with the electric power are considered. The volume of energy produced by solar-wind installations is determined. Besides, the most optimal objects with the power supply of which it is possible to use solar-wind plants of the batteryless distributed type are determined. Materials and Methods. A technical and economic analysis of the application of solar-wind installations for various power supply facilities is carried out. Research Results. The efficiency of using batteryless solar-wind plants is shown under the parallel operation with the power network for agricultural production facilities. Discussion and Conclusions. The results obtained can be used under designing and reconstruction of the power network systems of agricultural objects.