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Largest solar industrial heat plant in Germany heats gas

Gross size of solar thermal collector field 2,145 m²
Solar thermal capacity of collector field 1.5 MW
Collector type Heat pipe vacuum tube collectors of the type Mega with 13 m²each
Supplier of collectors Akotec Produktionsgesellschaft, Germany
Temperature of supplied solar heat 60 °C
Project developers Enertracting supported by the University of Kassel, both Germany
Owner and operator of solar collector field Ontras Gastransport, Germany
Estimated annual yield of solar collector field 850 MWh/a
Specific annual yield 395 kWh/m²a
Total investment costs of solar plant including installation, land property, compensatory measures, fulfillment of official requirements, integration into the existing system Around EUR 3.5 million
Level of subsidy 45 % of the investment costs from Energy Efficiency in Industryfunding scheme

Solar heat was well-represented during the first HeatExpo in Germany

Bärbel Epp