Energy requirements in a technified poultry farm in Central Mexico

Abstract

Mexico is one the leading poultry producers worldwide (4th place). Although poultry farming has the largest share from the total Mexican national livestock, its contribution to Mexico's GHG national inventories account are neither well defined by level of technification or region nor particularized by contributor-energy consumption for instance-and well characterized. Aiming to reduce this information gap, this work evaluates the electrical and gas energy requirements in a technified poultry farm located in Michoacán, Mexico, thoroughly dedicated to meat production. In the first sections, the paper describes the selected poultry farms and evaluates the energy consumption inventory and the respective CO 2 eq are calculated. Afterwards, the results of this research are presented, and a comparative discussion of the results are carried out. A critical analysis of the data highlights the relevance of LP gas usage in this farm and the necessity to include the CO 2 emission from this activity to the national greenhouse emissions.