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.
Mansfield Center is a census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Mansfield in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 973 at the 2000 census. The CDP includes the town center of Mansfield also sometimes known as Mansfield Village.