"For now three but we haven't stopped counting because, since there's no deadline, more could be on their way," Francesco Starace said.

Enel is looking to sell more than 4 billion euros ($5 billion) of assets this year to cut its debt and hang on to its investment grade credit rating.

(1 US dollar = 0.8008 euro)

(Reporting by Alberto Sisto, writing by Stephen Jewkes, editing by Valentina Za)