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.
Libuse is a populated place in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A.. It was founded in 1914 by Czech immigrants, and named after LibuĊĦe. As of 2006, fundraising has commenced for a future Louisiana Czech Museum to be built in Libuse. The tribal office of the The Talimali Band of Apalachee is located in Libuse. Libuse is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.