Ritter XL Solar

September 1, 2021
“German SDH market could be bigger, if there was enough space”

Under the leadership of Christoph Bühler, Ritter XL, a division of Germany’s Ritter Energie company, has risen to become the market leader for solar district heating (SDH) in Germany. His team successfully bid for seven of the last 10 SDH plants exceeding 1,000 m² to be put out...
May 2, 2020
Where to look for the world’s most experienced SHIP suppliers

China and Mexico are the hubs of the global solar industrial heat (SHIP) supply industry. Five of the companies that completed the most SHIP projects by the end of 2019 are from China and four from Mexico; another two each are based in Germany and India (see chart above). These are the...
October 27, 2017
Germany: Renewable District Heating Grants

German politicians are beginning to appreciate the benefits of solar district heating, or SDH for short. Germany’s Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, BMWi, has launched District Heating Networks 4.0, a new subsidy scheme for grids which use solar, biomass or waste heat to meet at...
April 21, 2017
Germany: Process Heat Supply from Vacuum Tubes and Air Collectors on the Rise

There is a distinct difference between the make-up of the German solar process heat segment and the country’s solar thermal market in general and it concerns the type of collectors used. One in four collectors used in solar process heat systems is an air collector, although the technology...
November 11, 2016
Germany: “Performance-based incentives for all solar thermal plants”

In spring 2015, Germany´s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) introduced a performance-based incentive for solar heating as an alternative to the scheme offering incentives based on collector area. Recently published statistics have shown the new programme to grant...
November 2, 2016
Denmark/Germany: Consumer-Owned Utilities Spearhead Energy Market Transformation

Solar district heating is becoming increasingly attractive to small towns and municipalities which are looking for energy independence and stable heat prices, a trend which was discussed at length during the October webinar by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). Entitled ...
September 27, 2016
Germany: First Record-Size Solar District Heating Plant in 11 Years

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 MW_th) set up in the town of Senftenberg, 140 km south of Berlin, have been feeding energy into the municipality...
August 27, 2015
Germany: Solar District Heating Tenders with 3-Year Solar Yield Guarantee

And the winner is: Ritter XL Solar. The German large-scale turnkey system supplier was awarded the contract for a 1,422 m² solar district heating field in the southern German town of Simmern. The solar thermal plant is part of a newly built district heating system which...
May 21, 2015
Germany: Award for Solar Process Heat above 150°C from CPC Vacuum Tube Technology

All smiles from Ritter Group management during the German Solar Thermal Technology Symposium at the beginning of May after they were given the innovation award for the demonstration plant of a steam-producing solar vacuum tube collector combined with a steam-jet chiller (from left):...
June 5, 2014
SDH Conference 2014: “We have to work on lighthouse projects”

On 3 and 4 June 2014, the halls of the old waterworks of municipal utility “Hamburg Energie” in Hamburg, Germany, became the venue for the 2^nd International Solar District Conference. 115 participants from 13 countries and many different backgrounds were offered a...
May 16, 2013
Europe: Grid Integration Poses Challenge for Solar District Heating

The first conference “Solar District Heating – Technical solutions, urban planning and business models” took place in the Swedish town of Malmö on 9 and 10 April 2013. It brought together 120 participants from 19 countries: manufacturers, district heating companies, scientists and...
January 22, 2013
Germany: Solar Process Heat Support Shows First Results

Twenty applications: That is how many subsidy requests the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control, BAFA, has received since the new incentives for solar process...