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Taiwan will soon boast what tracker supplier Big Sun claims will be the world’s largest rooftop array utilizing dual-axis tracking technology. The 840 kW array will be installed onto a “food facility” in Taiwan’s Pingtung County and will have to be sufficiently robust to withstand extreme weather events such as typhoons.

REC Solar has reported module shipments of 362 MW in Q3 2015, with the company on track to realize full-year modules sales of 1.2 GW. With a total capacity of 1.3 GW, the privately owned manufacturer looks set to increase shipments in 2016 through utilizing OEM production in Southeast Asia.

In what is claimed to be the world’s largest re-use of batteries originally purposed for e-mobility, a 13 MWh system has been installed at a recycling facility in the German town of Lünen. The “second use” project has been developed in a partnership between automaker Daimler, Getec Energie and The Mobility House.

Tesla Energy has brought forward plans to begin producing its Powerwall and Powerpack products at its Nevada Gigafactory to this quarter, in a move that will push back the delivery of some products to Q1 2016. Plans to commence cell production at the Gigafactory have also been accelerated, with cells set to roll off lines by the end of 2016.

Hanwha Q Cells has announced that it was the collaborator on the PERC Direct Wafer efficiency result announced late last month. Hanwha reports that an efficiency gain of 1.4% was achieved in only seven months using the innovative wafers.

The U.S. power company reported a US$50 million loss from its Home Solar division, but a $34 million gain from its yieldco.

Less than three months after expressing reservations about forming a yield vehicle in its Q2 results, Canadian Solar is going to take a yieldco public.

Indian solar market observers have described SunEdison’s reported bid of INR4.63/kWh (US$0.0706) for a 500 MW PV power plant project in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh as “very unexpected” and in the “realm of unattractive investments.” The bid, while capturing headlines, indicates the levels to which developers will go to capture Indian market share.

German inverter giant SMA claims it has reached 7.5 GW of installations in North America, concluding that its inverters currently account for one-third of the continent’s installed PV capacity. SMA has been active in North America since 2001.

UGE and OTEPI expect to build a total of 22 solar projects for a hardware and construction material supplier, totaling 4.5 MW. The projects will operate under Panama’s net metering policy.