<h1>Corporate Governance—Highlights</h1><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><span><a href="https://ogeenergy.com/governance/">Highlights</a> | <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=106374&p=irol-govboard">Directors</a> | <a href="https://oge.com/wps/portal/oge/about-us/companyOverview/leadership/!ut/p/a1/lZDbaoNAEIafJRfpne54NoVQNrEatSWxNNTsTdGwdReMK5ttmvTpq4FeBGzaDgzMDN8_J0RQjkhTHHhVKC6aou5z4r76WQSL1DYewXEcwJaReaH7DJDYHbDpARPmENtmAkkX4rkfpNlkZsHC-ac-Ss17wGkQZM4qMOKZ_Tc9_GAYftO_IHKJRDAJO8Q0lstwZUWe-Q1cOfESGLjhDFxZMkGkqkV5fvgGN6XlV4hI-kYllfq77MpMqfZ2DGNo2VHfCtkKWSiqcak3VPVVQRt-1D-Z2tV326kBruXZN-00flo-aJU4MF6xunO1HxrBxF6hfKg1anfrdQ481kh5-sCj0RdHNk3J/dl5/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/">Management</a> | <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=106374&p=irol-govCommComp">Committee Composition</a></span></br></br><p>Governance Guidelines: The Board of Directors of the Company has long had in place good standards of corporate governance. The Board of Directors formalized these standards and adopted Guidelines for Corporate Governance that outlined the responsibilities of the Board, as well as qualifications for directors to serve on the Board. Our Code of Conduct, applicable to all of our directors, officers and employees, and the Guidelines for Corporate Governance comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the NYSE listing standards. Our Code of Conduct, which is applicable to all of our directors, officers and employees, and our Corporate Governance Guidelines comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the NYSE listing standards. We also have a separate code of ethics that applies to our CEO and our senior financial officers, including, our chief financial officer (“CFO”) and our chief accounting officer, and that complies with the requirements imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules issued thereunder for codes of ethics applicable to such officers. The Board has reviewed and will continue to evaluate its role and responsibilities with respect to the legislative and other governance requirements of the NYSE. All of our corporate governance materials, including our codes of conduct and ethics, our Guidelines for Corporate Governance and the charters for the Audit Committee, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee, are available for public viewing on the OGE Energy website at<em> <a href="http://www.oge.com">www.oge.com</a></em> under the heading Investor Relations, Corporate Governance.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Director Independence: The Board of Directors of the Company currently has 10 directors, nine of whom are independent within the meaning of the NYSE listing standards. Our Chairman and CEO is the only director who is not considered independent. For purposes of determining independence, we have adopted the following standards for director independence in compliance with the NYSE listing standards:</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><ul><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>A director who is or was an employee, or whose immediate family member is or was an executive officer, of the Company or any of our subsidiaries is not independent until three years after the end of such employment relationship;</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>A director who received, or whose immediate family member received, more than $120,000 during any 12-month period within the past three years in direct compensation from us or any of our subsidiaries, other than director and committee fees and pension or other forms or deferred compensation for prior service (provided such compensation is not contingent in any way on continued service), is not independent until three years after he or she ceases to receive more than $120,000 in any 12-month period of such compensation;</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>A director who is a current partner or employee, or whose immediate family member is a current partner, of a firm that is the internal or external auditor of the Company or any of our subsidiaries is not independent;</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>A director who was, or whose immediate family member was, within the last three years (but is no longer) a partner or employee of the internal or external auditor of the Company or any of our subsidiaries and who personally worked on the audit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries within that time is not independent;</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>A director whose immediate family member is a current employee of the internal or external auditor of the Company or any of our subsidiaries and who personally works on the audit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is not independent;</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>A director who is or was employed, or whose immediate family member is or was employed, as an executive officer of another company where, at the same time, any of our or any of our subsidiaries’ present executives is or was serving on that company’s compensation committee is not independent until three years after the end of such service or the employment relationship;</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>A director who is a current employee, or whose immediate family member is a current executive officer, of a company that has made payments to, or received payments from, the Company for property or services in an amount which, in any of the last three fiscal years, exceeds the greater of $1 million or two percent<strong></strong> of such other company’s consolidated gross revenues is not independent; and</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <li>No director qualifies as independent unless the Board affirmatively determines that the director has no other relationship with us or any of our subsidiaries (either directly or as a partner, shareholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with us or any of our subsidiaries) that in the opinion of the Board of Directors could be considered to affect the directors ability to exercise his or her independent judgment as a director.</li><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></ul><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Standing Committees: All members of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees are independent directors who are nominated and approved by the Board. The roles and responsibilities of these committees are defined in the committee charters adopted by the Board and provide for oversight of, among other things, executive management. Each of these committee charters is available on our website at <em> <a href="http://www.oge.com">www.oge.com</a></em> under the heading Investor Relations, Corporate Governance. The Board of Directors also has established a standing Executive Committee, whose members are all independent.</p>
<h4>Committee Charters</h4><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Class="ccbnTblLnk"Target="_blank" href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NTM3MzF8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" /><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><span class="ccbnTblLnk"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <a Class="ccbnTblLnk"Target="_blank" href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NTM3MzF8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1">Audit Committee</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> </span><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></br><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <a Class="ccbnTblLnk"Target="_blank" href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODc5MjR8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" /></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <a Class="ccbnTblLnk"Target="_blank" href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODc5MjR8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1">Compensation Committee</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> </span><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></br><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <a Class="ccbnTblLnk"Target="_blank" href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODc5Mjd8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" /></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <span class="ccbnTblLnk"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <a Class="ccbnTblLnk" Target="_blank" href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODc5Mjd8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1">Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> </span>
<h4>Governance Documents</h4><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Class="ccbnTblLnk" Target="_blank" href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Mjg4NTN8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" alt="Download Corporate Governance Documentation" /><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODc4NDZ8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1">Corporate Governance Guidelines</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></br><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Class="ccbnTblLnk"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDAzMDExfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1&cb=636596860838669966"><img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" alt="Download Corporate Governance Documentation" /><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDAzMDExfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1&cb=636596860838669966">OGE Energy Corp. By-Laws</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></br><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Class="ccbnTblLnk"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDAzMDEyfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1&cb=636598426708868386"><img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" alt="Download Corporate Governance Documentation" /></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDAzMDEyfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1&cb=636598426708868386">OGE Energy Corp. Restated Certificate of Incorporation</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></br><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Class="ccbnTblLnk"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Mjg4NzZ8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1"><img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" alt="Download Corporate Governance Documentation" /></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Mjg4NzZ8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1">Code of Ethics for CEO and Senior Financial Officers</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> </br><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <a Class="ccbnTblLnk"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Mjg4NTN8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1"><img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" alt="Download Corporate Governance Documentation" /></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Mjg4NTN8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1">OGE Energy Corp. Code of Ethics</a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></br><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <a Class="ccbnTblLnk"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MjkwNzI3fENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1"><img src="https://ogeenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icon-23px-pdf.png" border="0" alt="Download Corporate Governance Documentation" /></a><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><a Target="_blank"<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MjkwNzI3fENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1">Employee Complaint Procedures for Accounting and Auditing Matters</a>