This plan details the processes that PNNL will use for acquiring, anonymizing and protecting utility data offered for use in research projects affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electric Reliability and Resilience (OE). PNNL has been tasked with obtaining agreements with utilities to provide PMU and related data for research purposes, and to assemble anonymized practice and test datasets for the three primary U.S. electric grid interconnections. DOE intends to provide anonymized PMU data to selected researchers to explore the capability of artificial intelligence tools to identify and improve existing knowledge, and to discover new insights and tools for better grid operation and management.