Oklahoma § 17-710.3 - Definitions

§ 17-710.3. Definitions

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.

Added by Laws 2011, c. 291, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.