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The Ritter Energie- und Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Ritter Energy (German spelling Energie) for short, is a company in the area of ecological heating technology. The Holding is with three subsidiary brands at the German market. The main proprietors are the siblings Marli Hoppe-Ritter and Alfred Theodor Ritter and family, the owner of the manucaturer of Ritter Sport-chocolate.

The central business segments are the production of Solar thermal collectors, the distribution of Systemlösungen in the areas Solar thermal energy, Pellet stoves and Condensing boilers sowie die realisation of large-scale solar plants (more than 30 m² area (brutto). Aim and main idea is to offer energy-efficient and ecological solutions for generation of heating from regenerative energys. Ritter Energy employs 250 people nationwide in 2021. The headquarters of the der Ritter Group is Dettenhausen (Baden-Württemberg).

History
After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the harvest of hazelnuts for Ritter-Sport-chocolate was contaminated in Turkey. This was the flash point for the foundation of the company 1988. It was the aim, to make Nuclear Power obsolete and switch to Renewable Energy (umsteigen). 1996 the Solar thermal collector was introduced.

With the chinese Linuo Group unterhielt die Ritter Gruppe von 2002 bis 2015 das Joint Venture Linuo Paradigma, that belongs to the five largest manufacturers at the Solarmarkt China. 2000 was the Ritter Solar GmbH & Co. KG for the production of Solar thermal collectors founded. 2004 was the Aqua Solar Systems, eines wasserführenden Vakuumröhren-Solarkollektors, launched. In 2009 was the Ritter Energie- und Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG as Holding introduced. 2010 was the „Ritter XL Solar GmbH“ for commercialization of large-scale solar plants founded. So the work yard of underground trains in Coney Island(U-Bahn-Waschanlage) got an 164 m² large Solaranlage by Ritter (instructed by the New York Power Authority). 2011 the turnover of Ritter Energy was about 83 Millions Euro.

2012 the President of Germany Joachim Gauck and the Minister-president Winfried Kretschmann visited the company in Dettenhausen.

Awards
2010 won Ritter for an active Facade collector, which was developed in cooperation with the Universität Stuttgart, Hydro Building Systems and the German company Frener & Reifer Metallbau, the Intersolar Award of the TU München. 2021 won Ritter Energy the Top 100 competition of innovations, that is mentored by Ranga Yogeshwar.