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.
Wheelwright is a village in the town of Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about 20 miles northwest of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Named after George W. Wheelwright who owned the paper mill around the turn of the 20th century. Mostly residential now there is still a small plastics manufacturing shop on the mill site. The zip code is 01094.