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The Energy Sustainability of the Small Agricultural Farms Isolated of Electric Power Grid


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/iree.v13i3.14413

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The agriculture and food-processing industries demand a lot of energy. The same can be applied to small agriculture farms isolated from the electric power grid. The use of electrical and heat energy makes a significant business cost in these economies. As a result, the decision on how the electrical and the heat energy can be provided for the agriculture farms isolated from the electric power grid in economical and reliable way is of a crucial importance for their further business and life quality. The electrical and the heat energy need has been investigated for the farms scattered through the Bosnia mountains sites that are away from electric power grid. Besides the energy needs, other aspects of energy solutions for the farms have been researched, such as those of the environmental, technical, and economical nature, and the reliability of the offered solutions. The analysis was carried out by using a hybrid algorithm based on the analytical hierarchy process and techno-economic analysis.
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Agriculture; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Decision-Making; Heuristic; Indices; Markov Chain; Monte Carlo Simulation; Reliability; Renewable Energy Sources

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