Abstract
Abstract
The choice of a source of electric heat supply in distributed systems is largely determined by the availability or the possibility of delivery of primary fuel and energy resources and economic calculations. Recently, however, more and more attention is paid to environmental protection issues. The aim of the research is to substantiate the methodology for choosing sources of energy supply to agricultural consumers in distributed energy systems. For a comprehensive assessment of the environmental friendliness of energy production, we have proposed an energy environmental friendliness factor. The coefficient simultaneously characterizes the cost of energy production and the amount of generated environmental pollutants. This value turned out to be convenient for comparing a number of production technologies.