Electricity from photovoltaics
The BroilerNet project involves a bottom-up approach to identify challenges and innovation needs for broiler farmers in Europe, and to collect promising and already successfully implemented Good Practices to meet the challenges in questions. The top Good Practices selected by experts within the three thematic areas (animal health management, animal welfare and sustainability) have been summarized in factsheets. This Good Practice (GP) addresses the challenge of improving energy management of broiler farms and demonstrates that farms not having the economic strength to install a photovoltaic system on all the roofs of the farm, can still enter into contracts with specialized companies to whom the use of the farm roof is handed over. In 2012, the farm recieved free of charge the renovation and insulation of the roofs and the use of a small part of the photovoltaic system for farm use (i.e. 30kW of the 530kW installed capacity). The intervention made it possible to eliminate the old fibre cement sandwich panels with an intermediete layer of rock wool and to replace them with corrugated galvanized sheet metal panels with a 6cm layer of ploystyrene insulation. A new mechanical ventilation system also was installed in 3 out of the 4 farm sheds used for broiler farming. The adoption of this GP does not entail any risks other than that of fire. It is therefore advisable to enter into an insurance contract that guarantees the replacement value of the insured property.
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Detaljerede oplysninger om bidrag
- Beliggenhed
- Europe
- Italy
- Forfattere
- Stefan Gunnarsson
- Formål
- Communication
- Decision-making support
- Education/Training
- Filtype
- Document
- Filstørrelse
- 681 kB
- Oprettet den
- 01-05-2024
- Oprindelsessprog
- English
- Projektets officielle hjemmeside
- BROILERNET
- Licens
- CC BY-ND
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