Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-710.3
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Definitions
Official statutory text
As used in the Electric Usage Data Protection Act:
1. “Aggregate usage data” means any usage data from which all
identifying information has been removed such that the individual
usage data of a customer cannot without extraordinary effort and
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expertise be associated with the identifying information of that
customer;
2. “Commission” means the Corporation Commission;
3. “Customer” means an individual or a business partnership,
limited liability company, corporation, or other legal entity
receiving service from an electric utility in the name of the
individual or the entity. A customer may be residential, commercial
or industrial;
4. “Customer-identifiable usage data” means usage data that is
stored or presented in a format that associates the usage data with
identifying information of a customer or could be manipulated to
identify a customer without extraordinary effort;
5. “Customer information” means both identifying information
and customer-identifiable electric usage data. Aggregate usage data
shall not be considered customer information;
6. “Electric utility” means any person, firm, partnership,
corporation, association or cooperative corporation furnishing
retail electric service to the public in Oklahoma. Electric utility
shall not mean a municipal corporation or beneficial trust of a
municipal corporation;
7. “Identifying information” means any information that
directly or indirectly identifies or is uniquely associated with a
customer or an authorized representative of a customer, including
but not limited to the name, social security or taxpayer
identification number, street address, telephone number, electric
utility account number, meter number, or financial account
information of the customer or authorized representative of the
customer;
8. “Nonstandard usage data” means any usage data that is not
standard usage data or aggregate data;
9. “Standard usage data” means usage data, as defined in
paragraph 11 of this section, that is used internally and is
generally made available by the electric utility to customers in
each of its customer classes on a regular basis, delivered by the
electric utility in a standard format and with standard frequency,
including without limitation the usage data collected by the meter
or obtainable on an as-available basis by the customer;
10. “Self-regulated cooperative” means an Oklahoma rural
electric cooperative whose members have elected to exempt the
cooperative from certain regulation by the Commission as described
in Section 158.27 of Title 17 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
11. “Usage data” means information, on an as-available basis,
relating to both:
a. the amount of electricity consumed at a residence or
premises of a customer, and
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b. the characteristics of that consumption, as generated,
recorded, stored or transmitted by the electric
utility infrastructure or supporting technology.
1. “Aggregate usage data” means any usage data from which all
identifying information has been removed such that the individual
usage data of a customer cannot without extraordinary effort and
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 17. Corporation Commission Page 292
expertise be associated with the identifying information of that
customer;
2. “Commission” means the Corporation Commission;
3. “Customer” means an individual or a business partnership,
limited liability company, corporation, or other legal entity
receiving service from an electric utility in the name of the
individual or the entity. A customer may be residential, commercial
or industrial;
4. “Customer-identifiable usage data” means usage data that is
stored or presented in a format that associates the usage data with
identifying information of a customer or could be manipulated to
identify a customer without extraordinary effort;
5. “Customer information” means both identifying information
and customer-identifiable electric usage data. Aggregate usage data
shall not be considered customer information;
6. “Electric utility” means any person, firm, partnership,
corporation, association or cooperative corporation furnishing
retail electric service to the public in Oklahoma. Electric utility
shall not mean a municipal corporation or beneficial trust of a
municipal corporation;
7. “Identifying information” means any information that
directly or indirectly identifies or is uniquely associated with a
customer or an authorized representative of a customer, including
but not limited to the name, social security or taxpayer
identification number, street address, telephone number, electric
utility account number, meter number, or financial account
information of the customer or authorized representative of the
customer;
8. “Nonstandard usage data” means any usage data that is not
standard usage data or aggregate data;
9. “Standard usage data” means usage data, as defined in
paragraph 11 of this section, that is used internally and is
generally made available by the electric utility to customers in
each of its customer classes on a regular basis, delivered by the
electric utility in a standard format and with standard frequency,
including without limitation the usage data collected by the meter
or obtainable on an as-available basis by the customer;
10. “Self-regulated cooperative” means an Oklahoma rural
electric cooperative whose members have elected to exempt the
cooperative from certain regulation by the Commission as described
in Section 158.27 of Title 17 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
11. “Usage data” means information, on an as-available basis,
relating to both:
a. the amount of electricity consumed at a residence or
premises of a customer, and
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b. the characteristics of that consumption, as generated,
recorded, stored or transmitted by the electric
utility infrastructure or supporting technology.
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