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The genetic potential of bird productivity can be fully revealed only in conditions of an optimal microclimate to be ensured by sufficiently energy-intensive ventilation and heating (cooling) air systems. In this regard, energy conservation is an urgent task for poultry farms given the significant share of the energy component in the cost of poultry products (9-14 %) and rising energy prices. In poultry houses, the greatest heat losses are in exhaust ventilation (up to 29, 000 gigacalories in poultry farms for the heating season), where heat recovery units are needed, which are designed to perform high-quality sanitation in heat-exchange channels; for the economical heating of poultry and premises, the use of local gas heating systems able to work with positive pressure and depression in the poultry house and disinfect the air is required. The experiments on the use of gas air heaters for growing meat chickens showed that in an autonomous heating system with heat recovery units, air heaters become the main heat generators and heat source that heats up the air supply, which allows the system to be used in “hybrid” modes, i.e. at high pressure during the first period of broiler operation and with depressurizing during the second period of broiler operation. At the same time, there was no negative effect of burning oxygen and combustion products on livestock productivity; a high level of veterinary and sanitary protection of the livestock due to air disinfection by gas burners is provided as well.

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.

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