Italian utility Enel has started construction of the 382MW Campos del Sol project in Chile, the country’s largest solar power plant currently under construction.

Enel’s local unit, Enel Green Power Chile, will invest a total of $320m in the project located in the northern Atacama province, the country’s most promising solar district.

French oil giant Total and US renewable power group Sunpower are building the second-largest PV project, the first 158MW stage of the Santa Isabel solar complex, also in the Atacama region.