Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it renamed its Cleco Energy LLC subsidiary to Cleco Cajun LLC, effective March 9.

Cleco Energy's application to acquire 3,555-MW NRG South Central Generating LLC portfolio from NRG Energy Inc. is under review at the commission.

The newly named Cleco Cajun will purchase the 225-MW Bayou Cove, 430-MW Big Cajun 1, 1,461-MW Big Cajun 2, 1,263-MW Cottonwood Energy and the 176-MW Sterlington gas plants. (FERC docket EC18-63)