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.
Keego Harbor is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,769 at the 2000 census. The city originated as a real estate investment and planned resort established by Pontiac lawyer Joseph E. Sawyer around 1900. The name "Keego" is said to mean "big fish" in an Indian language. There is no harbor associated with Keego Habor, but the community lays along Cass Lake, one of the lakes that make up the lakes district of western Oakland County, an area renowned for its water recreation resources.