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.
Geneva is a town in Wabash Township, Adams County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,368 at the 2000 census. Geneva is the location of the Limberlost Cabin, the home of writer and naturalist Gene Stratton Porter.