Friday, 23
September 2016, was the inauguration date for the now largest solar
thermal collector field in Germany. Since August, 8,300 m² of vacuum
tube collectors (5.8 MWth) set up in the town of Senftenberg,
140 km south of Berlin, have been feeding energy into the
municipality’s district heating network. The previously largest field
since 2005 – a 7,300 m² flat plate collector installation (5.1 MWth)
– is located in the southern German town of Crailsheim. The new
Senftenberg solar field was designed, manufactured and implemented by
German system integrator Ritter XL Solar.