FERC approved the Macquarie Energy (ASX:MQG) request to revise its market-based rate tariff to allow the company to engage in short-term simultaneous transactions along a key Pacific Northwest transmission system.

This week's company briefs include news on NRG Energy, American Electric Power, Amazon, Apache Corp., General Motors and General Electric.

AEP (NYSE:AEP) has reached a deal to sell more than 5,000 MW of Ohio and Indiana merchant generation to The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) and ArcLight Capital Partners for about $2.2 billion.

A group of MISO transmission owners has petitioned Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for more time to draft a petition challenging FERC's Order 1000.

Mel Coleman, president of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) board of directors, spoke at the Clinton School of Public Service about the association's efforts to expand broadband Internet access and the history of the electric co-op.

This week's company briefs include news on Macquarie Infrastructure, American Electric Power, NIPSCO, SolarCity, Minnesota Power and Southern Co.

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) has nearly completed the bidding process to sell more than 5,000 MW of merchant generation in Ohio and Indiana.

FirstEnergy announced Thursday it is withdrawing its request for state public utility designation for its all-transmission spin-off.

Enbridge is buying Spectra Energy in a $28 billion deal that will create North America’s largest energy infrastructure company.

This week's company briefs include news on Duke, White Pine, Xcel, Tesla, SolarCity, Enbridge, Kinder Morgan and other companies.