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.
Combs is a community in Perry County, Kentucky, USA. Combs is located at 37.266N latitude, -83.212W longitude in the state's southeastern region known as the Eastern Coal Field. The city was named for Abijah Benjamin Combs.