Hurricane Isaac tested energy providers in Louisiana and Mississippi this week, making headlines and knocking out power for Entergy and Mississippi Power customers. Details on those outages and recent smart meter installation milestones drew the most attention in Utility Dive's news feed over the last seven days. 

Find out what else you might have missed at links below:

• 10 recent smart meter milestones for utilities—Utility Dive checks out recent status updates from companies who have moved closer to realizing their smart meter deployment goals.
• Duke and Progress made backroom deals to help merger—The terms of several secret deals made between Duke and Progress and some of their big-ticket electricity customers have been made public.
• Louisiana utilities calls in extra crews in preparation for Hurricane Isaac—Anticipating widespread outages after Hurricane Isaac, Louisiana utility companies have called in extra work crews.
• Colorado inventor to benefit from $73.5 million utilities contract—A Colorado inventor will receive funding to implement his emissions control technology.
• Florida utility might be required to receive consent before installing residential smart meters—Port Orange city leaders are looking into requiring that FPL obtain consent from individual customers.

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