Danvers, Massachusetts has been awarded $8.4 million in funding to develop a smarter energy grid. The U.S. Department of Energy selected the town of Danvers, Massachussetts as one of 100 companies to receive federal stimulus funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The stimulus funds will be used beginning from 2010, to deploy more than 12,000 smart meters for the full customer base, upgrade cyber security systems, and automate outage management and other distribution operations with the goal of achieving full interoperability between all of the various systems.