Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Storrie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California and about 20 miles northeast of Lake Oroville. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 5. According to the United States Census Bureau, it is one of only 8 places in the United States with a population of five people. The others are Bear Head Lake, Minnesota, Baker, Missouri, Gross, Nebraska, Odell, New Hampshire, Maza, North Dakota, Somerset, Vermont, and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.