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.
Minneapolis is a city in Ottawa County, Kansas, United States. The population was 2,046 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Ottawa County. It shares its name with the much larger and more famous city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as the small township of Minneapolis, North Carolina. Rock City is located just southwest of town. Minneapolis is part of the Salina Micropolitan Statistical Area.